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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1984.832
People
Pieter de Molijn, Dutch (London, England 1595 - 1661 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Landscape with Five Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294915

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black chalk
Dimensions
actual: 11 x 18.4 cm (4 5/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, lower left: PM [in ligature] olyn
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified Auction House, Paris, 6 May 1909, lot 86]. Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (L. 1768a, without his mark), his sale; [Hôtel Drouot, 22 November 1937, lot 191]. [Christie's, London, 1 July 1969, lot 148], sold; to Lundi. [Christie's South Kensington, London, 5 April 1977, lot 31]. Maida and George Abrams, Boston, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1984.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Maida and George S. Abrams in memory of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1984
Object Number
1984.832
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Pieter Molyn 1595-1661: Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk (Davaco, 1998), p. 22, note 46; p. 167, cat. no. 347

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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