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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.121
People
Pieter de Molijn, Dutch (London, England 1595 - 1661 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
A Dune Landscape with Figures in a Storm
Other Titles
Former Title: Le Coup de vent
Former Title: Gust of Wind
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1635-1645
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/356437

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
24.2 × 35.8 cm (9 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.)
framed: 42.3 × 53.2 cm (16 5/8 × 20 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left: P. Molijn
  • seal: verso, center of panel, red wax: Collection / 1914 / Paul Delaroff
  • label: verso, upper left corner of panel, blue bordered with printed numbers: 5058
  • label: verso, middle left of panel, circular with serrated edges, graphite inscription: 30299
  • label: verso, upper center of panel, printed text: MOLYN / 207 Le Coup de vent / Le vent souffle, les arbres sont penechés; dans le ciel nuageux la tem- / pête se prépare; et sur le chemin qui passe au pied du coteau, un homme / et une femme suivis de leur chien marchent péniblement, luttant contre / la bourrasque. / Signé en bas, à gauche: Molyn. / Panneau, H.: 25; L.: 35 1/2
  • label: back of frame, upper right: Otto Naumann, Ltd / 22 East 80th Street / New York, NY 10021 [typed] 12 [handwritten, fiber-tipped ink]
  • label: back of frame, lower center, printed text: D19944 NAUMAN / FRAME 3 1/2 SP MOD BF HEEM / SUBJECT GUST OF WIND / ARTIST MOLYN

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Paul Viktorovitch Delaroff (1852-1913), Saint Petersburg and Pavlovsk, sold [through his sale, Paris, April 27-30, 1914, lot 207]; to Louis Deglatigny (1854-1936), Rouen, sold [through his sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 28, 1937, lot 133]; to Schmoll. [1] Sold [through Loudmer Spc., Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 18, 1995, lot 67]; to [M. L. Wurfbain Fine Art B.V., Oegstgeest], sold; to [Otto Naumann Ltd., New York], sold; to Anne and Peter Brooke, Boston, March 1999, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

[1] From annotated May 28,1937 catalogue at the RKD. We have determined to the best of our ability that the painting did not belong to Louis Schmoll (1872-1943). Descendants suggest that the painting was possibly purchased by Robert Schmoll, later Robert Nivelle.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter and Anne Brooke
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.121
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue des tableaux anciens...de son excellence feu Paul Delaroff, auct. cat. (Paris, April 27-30, 1914), p. 59, lot 207
  • Sucesssion de M. Louis Deglatigny de Rouen...tableaux anciens..., auct. cat., Galerie Jean Charpentier (Paris, May 28, 1937), p. 71, lot 133
  • Dessins et tableaux anciens, objects d'art et d'ameublement, bel ensemble d'objets et de meubles d'époque Charles X, mobilier - bijoux, auct. cat., Loudmer: Commissaires Priseurs S. C. P. (Paris, December 18, 1995), lot no. 67, repr.
  • Peter C. Sutton and Marjorie E. Wieseman, Old Master Paintings, 1999, no. 17, repr.

Verification Level

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