A wooded River Landscape with Farmers washing and Fishermen near a House

Molijn's earliest surviving landscapes, dating from the 1620s, show the influence of Esaias van de Velde. From the early 1630s onwards however, Molijn contributed to the development of what later became known as the typical Dutch 'tonal' and simple landscape. This development took place in Haarlem and was also much indebted to the achievements of Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck has kindly confirmed the attribution and supplied information on the Provenance. He will include this drawing as no. 44 in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist's drawings, and points out that this is the only signed and dated chalk drawing from this period, which makes it possible to date other early drawings.