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Pieter Molijn (London 1595-1661 Haarlem)
Lot 135

Pieter Molijn (London 1595-1661 Haarlem)

Horsemen and wagon-drivers resting in a village

Closed10 July 2014

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Pieter Molijn (London 1595-1661 Haarlem)
Horsemen and wagon-drivers resting in a village
signed and dated 'PMolyn [the capital letters interlaced]/ 1654'
black chalk, grey wash, black ink framing lines
5½ x 7½ in. (14 x 18.7 cm.)

Specialist note

One of a number of studies by Molijn with very similar compositions, showing wagon-teams and travellers resting beside a rank of cottages. Comparable drawings are in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (also dated 1654), in the George and Maida Abrams Collection, Boston (also 1654), and in a Swiss private collection (dated 1655) (H.-U. Beck, Pieter Molyn: Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk, 1998, nos. 236, 255, and 277).