DUTCH SCHOOL 17thC - ANIMATED LANDSCAPE ATTR. PIETER MOLIJN - CHARCOAL DRAWING
Item History & Price
From a Dutch collection near Leiden (West Holland), is this very interesting Dutch old master drawing, a fine work of art for a good collection.
The drawing, executed in charcoal on laid paper, depicts an animated landscape, showing a man on a dike at the borders of a large river. Right, a simple farm is visible, central a man in a rowing-boat leaves the estuary, to cross the river.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, catalogued in the collection as by Pieter... Molijn. Comparing this drawing with other simular Molijn drawings (the more scetchy drawings), such as "Landscape with open gate", ca. 1630-1635, part of the collection of the Washington National Gallery of Art and "Men on a farm repairing a wheel", part of the Getty Collection.On the backside of the support : an inscription "V. Goyen".
PIETER MOLIJN (London 1595 - Haarlem 1661) : When Pieter Molijn moved to Holland is unknown, but he made Haarlem his home for life. He joined Haarlem's Guild of Saint Luke in 1616 and served as its dean in 1633, 1638, and 1646. His early landscape style was strongly influenced by the realism of Esaias van de Velde and his pupil Jan van Goyen, who were both in Haarlem for a short period after Molijn's arrival.
Works by Molijn, Van Goyen, and Salomon van Ruysdael represent the climax of realism in Dutch landscape painting. These artists eliminated the ornamental foliage and glittering highlights of their Mannerist predecessors. Molijn's most innovative period was the 1620s. In depicting the dunes and the flat countryside around Haarlem, he chose not to divide the landscape into separate realms as was common practice. Instead, he subordinated scattered details to large areas of light and shadow and unified the scene by prominent diagonals leading into the distance.
During his maturity, Molijn was more active as a draftsman than as a painter. Most of his lively chalk landscape drawings, were apparently meant to be finished works, not preliminary studies for paintings.
Period : ca. 1630-1640.
Size : 13, 4x21, 9cm (without support).
Provenance : Collection "M.W. v Noord" (inventory number "3/2105 III"), his handwritten collector's mark on the backside of the drawing.
Condition : Fairly good, seen its age. The drawing suffered, but has been the subject of restoration. Left top zone vertical : a restored tear. Mid and right, it seems as the sheet had been torn in three parts. These parts were re-joined and carefully restored. Some scattered dirt throughout. Attached to a support by the topside. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 16$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The drawing, executed in charcoal on laid paper, depicts an animated landscape, showing a man on a dike at the borders of a large river. Right, a simple farm is visible, central a man in a rowing-boat leaves the estuary, to cross the river.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, catalogued in the collection as by Pieter... Molijn. Comparing this drawing with other simular Molijn drawings (the more scetchy drawings), such as "Landscape with open gate", ca. 1630-1635, part of the collection of the Washington National Gallery of Art and "Men on a farm repairing a wheel", part of the Getty Collection.On the backside of the support : an inscription "V. Goyen".
PIETER MOLIJN (London 1595 - Haarlem 1661) : When Pieter Molijn moved to Holland is unknown, but he made Haarlem his home for life. He joined Haarlem's Guild of Saint Luke in 1616 and served as its dean in 1633, 1638, and 1646. His early landscape style was strongly influenced by the realism of Esaias van de Velde and his pupil Jan van Goyen, who were both in Haarlem for a short period after Molijn's arrival.
Works by Molijn, Van Goyen, and Salomon van Ruysdael represent the climax of realism in Dutch landscape painting. These artists eliminated the ornamental foliage and glittering highlights of their Mannerist predecessors. Molijn's most innovative period was the 1620s. In depicting the dunes and the flat countryside around Haarlem, he chose not to divide the landscape into separate realms as was common practice. Instead, he subordinated scattered details to large areas of light and shadow and unified the scene by prominent diagonals leading into the distance.
During his maturity, Molijn was more active as a draftsman than as a painter. Most of his lively chalk landscape drawings, were apparently meant to be finished works, not preliminary studies for paintings.
Period : ca. 1630-1640.
Size : 13, 4x21, 9cm (without support).
Provenance : Collection "M.W. v Noord" (inventory number "3/2105 III"), his handwritten collector's mark on the backside of the drawing.
Condition : Fairly good, seen its age. The drawing suffered, but has been the subject of restoration. Left top zone vertical : a restored tear. Mid and right, it seems as the sheet had been torn in three parts. These parts were re-joined and carefully restored. Some scattered dirt throughout. Attached to a support by the topside. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 16$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
