Landscape with Figures, 1654

  • Pieter Molyn the Elder, Dutch, 1595-1661

Black chalk and gray brown wash on buff laid paper

  • Sheet: 5 3/4 × 7 5/8 inches (14.6 × 19.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

38.18

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]

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)

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.

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.