Pieter Molijn

Molyn, Pieter
Molijn, Pieter de

Dutch, 1595 - 1661

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Pieter Molijn, Travellers along the Crest of a Hill, 1652, black chalk with gray wash on laid paper, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, 1978.81.2

Travellers along the Crest of a Hill

Pieter Molijn · 1652 · black chalk with gray wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1978.81.2

We look across a rutted, dirt road at a rickety wooden gate that leans precipitously to our right, at the same angle as the bare tree behind it in this horizontal landscape painting. The road curves from the lower right corner to the center of the composition, and continues back over a low rise. The gate leans back at an angle next to the road, near the lower right center of the painting. An area in shadow to our right could be the fence continuing along in front of a building with a sloping, moss-green roof that echoes the angle of the gate and tree. The bare branches of the tree twist into the sky from the leaning trunk. A tuft of laurel-green trees peeks up over the road where it passes through the gate. There is a fence post and scrubby bush on the left side of the road. Closer inspection reveals a few people, loosely painted, tucked into the landscape with one to our right of the tree and two just over the hill beyond the gate. A few swipes of white near that pair could be sheep or other animals walking along the road in front of them. Finally, a person, notably tiny in scale so out of proportion to the rest of the scene, stands holding a staff in the shadow cast by the gate. The sky above has white and straw-yellow clouds sweeping up from the horizon, which comes a quarter of the way up the composition, against a dove-gray sky.
Pieter Molijn, Landscape with Open Gate, c. 1630/1635, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Arthur K. and Susan H. Wheelock, 1986.10.1

Landscape with Open Gate

Pieter Molijn · c. 1630/1635 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1986.10.1

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn, Woman Conversing with a Peasant, probably 1626, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.63.3

Woman Conversing with a Peasant

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn · probably 1626 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1973.63.3

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn, Three Peasants and a Woman, 1626, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.63.1

Three Peasants and a Woman

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn · 1626 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1973.63.1

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn, Soldier Receiving an Order from a Sitting Officer, probably 1626, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.63.4

Soldier Receiving an Order from a Sitting Officer

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn · probably 1626 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1973.63.4

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn, Woman and Child Standing near a Seated Peasant, probably 1626, etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.63.2

Woman and Child Standing near a Seated Peasant

Pieter Molijn, Pieter Molijn · probably 1626 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1973.63.2

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Foreign Etchings

Various Artists, Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Paul Adolphe Rajon, William Unger, Henri-Victor Regnault, Ludwig Hans Fischer, W. Woerne, J. Burger, F. L. Meyer, J. Klaus, Wilhelm Leibl, Stephen James Ferris, C. E. Buchel, W. Krauskopf · · 1 vol: ill: 20 etchings on Japan paper ·  Accession ID  1958.13.3

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Oeuvre de Weirotter peintre Allemand, contenant près de 200 paysages dessinés d'après nature

Pierre-François Basan, Franz Edmund Weirotter, Jacob Matthias Schmutzer · 1775 · bound volume with letterpress title page and 213 etchings and engravings on laid paper by Weirotter (17 after various artists, the remainder after his own drawings), and 1 portrait etching of the artist by Jacob Matthias Schmutzer ·  Accession ID  2004.93.1.1-214

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Septembre (September)

Franz Edmund Weirotter, Pierre-François Basan · c. 1760 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2004.93.1.182

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Aoust (August)

Franz Edmund Weirotter, Pierre-François Basan · c. 1760 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2004.93.1.181

Bibliography

1628

  • Ampzing, Samuel. Beschrijvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland. Haarlem, 1628: 3-12, 413.

1648

  • Schrevelius, Theodorus. Harlemias, ofte, De eerst stichtinghe der stad Haarlem. Reprinted in 1754. Haarlem, 1648: 389-390.

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 3:183-184.

1870

  • Willigen, Adriaan van der. Les Artistes de Harlem: Notices historiques avec un précis sur la Gilde de St. Luc. Revised and enlarged ed. Haarlem and The Hague, 1870: 18, 21, 27, 225-227, 229.

1883

  • Granberg, Olof. Pieter de Molijn och sparen af hans konst: En konsthistorisk studie. Stockholm, 1883.

1884

  • Granberg, Olof. "Pieter de Molijn und seine Kunst." Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 19: 369-377.

1966

  • Stechow, Wolfgang. Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. National Gallery of Art Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art, no. 1. London, 1966: 23-28.

1987

  • Allen, Eva Jenney. "The Life and Art of Pieter Molyn." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 1987.

  • Sutton, Peter C., et al. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. Exh. cat. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Boston, 1987: 374-376.

1995

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 178.

2006

  • Biesboer, Pieter, and Neeltje Köhler, eds. Painting in Haarlem 1500-1850: the collection of the Frans Hals Museum. Translated by Jennifer Kilian and Katy Kist. Ghent, 2006: 246-249.