About the Artwork
Landscape with Figures
1654
Pieter Molyn the Elder
1595-1661
Dutch
Unknown
Black chalk and gray brown wash on buff laid paper
Sheet: 5 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (14.6 × 19.4 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
38.18
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, in black chalk, upper right: PMolyn [PM in monogram] | 1654
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, verso: VRN Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left, verso: N. 2083 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left corner, verso: 2083 [crossed out] Inscribed, in pencil, lower center, verso: 183 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: Pieter Molyn | geb. ZV Harlem 1600. | mm. Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right, verso: No. 37 [0] | N: 66 [crossed out]
Provenance
Jhr. J. Goll van Franckenstein (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [brown collector's mark L. 2987 on verso at lower left, N. 2083.];Freiherr M. von Heyl zu Herrnsheim (Darmstadt, Germany) [purple collector's mark L. 2879 on verso at lower left];
C.B. Duhrkoop;
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA (1939): p. 11 (ill.).
Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 35, no. 14 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.
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Pieter Molyn the Elder, Landscape with Figures, 1654, black chalk and gray brown wash on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 38.18.
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