A winter village landscape with peasants on a frozen waterway

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Pieter de Molijn (London 1595-1661 Haarlem)
A winter village landscape with peasants on a frozen waterway
signed 'PMolyn' (lower centre, 'PM' in ligature)
oil on panel
15 1/8 x 23 7/8 in. (38.4 x 60.6 cm.)
with inventory number '14' (on the reverse)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 April 1981, lot 40.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 9 July 1993, lot 26.

Literature

E. J. Allen, The Life and Art of Pieter Molyn, PhD thesis, University of Maryland, 1987, pp. 31, 211 and 270, no. 314, fig. 314.
H.-U. Beck, Künstler um Jan van Goyen, Doornspijk, 1991, p. 289, no. 801, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Pieter Molijn played a crucial role in the development of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting, innovating naturalistic landscapes which pioneered the ‘tonal’ landscape alongside Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael. Unlike the work of his predecessors, typified by their dramatic, fantastical compositions and use of bright areas of colour, Molijn’s work captured his indigenous landscapes from around Haarlem, using a harmonious, restricted palette of browns, tans, and greys.

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