Old Master & British Works on Paper
Old Master & British Works on Paper
Pieter de Molijn
Landscape with a waggon being attacked by brigands
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July 8, 12:44 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Pieter de Molijn
London 1595 - 1661 Haarlem
Landscape with a waggon being attacked by brigands
Black chalk and grey wash;
bears faint inscription in brown ink, verso (partially illegible): ... W.
148 by 256 mm
In his catalogue of Molijn's drawings, Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck listed three sheets depicting similar subjects -- in Paris, Rotterdam and formerly on the art market -- none of them dated.1
1. H.-U. Beck, Pieter Molyn 1595-1661, Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk 1998, pp. 93-4, nos. 138-140