PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 23, 60, 73, 91, 131, 142, 143, 146 AND 151)

Pieter Molijn (London 1595-1661 Haarlem)

Trees on a rise with travelers on a road

Details

Pieter Molijn (London 1595-1661 Haarlem)
Trees on a rise with travelers on a road
signed and dated 'P./Molyn./1654' (recto); numbered 'N. 640.-' (verso)
black chalk, grey wash, pen and black ink, brown ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark fool's cap
5¾ x 7 5/8 in. (146 x 194 mm.)

Provenance

H. de Kat; Rotterdam, Lamme, 4 March 1867, lot 179 (with two other drawings) (to van Beek).
Possibly Blokhuizen.
N.D. Goldsmid (L. 1962); Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 25 April 1876, lot 120 (with three other drawings for FF80).
Christie's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1993, lot 71, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

H.-U. Beck, Pieter Molyn 1595-1661: Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk, 1998, p. 128, no. 237.

Lot Essay

This drawing was once in the collection of Neville D. Goldsmid, an English businessman who lived in the Hague and amassed an exceptional collection of seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch paintings which included works by Nicolas Maes, Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Cornelis Dusart, Gerard Dou and other Northern masters.

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