Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Property from a German Private Collection
Pieter de Molijn
A landscape with farms in a hilly wood
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September 20, 12:03 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description
Property from a German Private Collection
Pieter de Molijn
London 1595–1661 Haarlem
A landscape with farms in a hilly wood
bears remnants of a now illegible signature lower left: ... FECIT
oil on panel
unframed: 91.7 x 76.5 cm.; 36⅛ x 30½ in.
framed: 109.9 x 95.7 cm.; 43¼ x 37⅝ in.
With H.G. Fein Gallery, Heidelberg, 1978.
W. Bernt, Die Niederländischen Maler und Zeichner des 17. Jahrhunderts, Munich 1979–80, vol. II, p. 840, reproduced;
H.-U. Beck, Pieter Molyn: Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk 1998, p. 71, under cat. no. 81, reproduced p. 30 (incorrectly listed as on canvas).
Pieter de Molijn's preparatory drawing for this composition is today in the
collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inv. no. PD. 473-1963). Unlike the painting, the drawing, which is signed and dated 1659, includes several figures in the lower foreground.