Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666)

A wooded landscape with a farm

Details

Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666)
Mola, P. F.
A wooded landscape with a farm
studies of Putti (verso, laid down); with inscription 'Mola'
pen and brown ink, brown wash
6.1/8 x 9 in. (155 x 229 mm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Christie's London, 3 July 1990, lot 41.

Lot Essay

Similar landscape drawings by Mola were exhibited in the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano and elsewhere, Pier Francesco Mola, 1989, nos. III.72-83.
Nicholas Turner dates this drawing to the late 1640s.