Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and dated (lower left): PMoLyn [initials in monogram] / 1629
Gallery Label Born in London, Molijn joined the painter's guild at Haarlem in 1616. Together with his slightly younger contemporaries, Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruysdael, he established the new tonal landscape style that became characteristic of the Haarlem school. Molijn's best work dates from around 1626 to 1629. This picture illustrates his deft application of Baroque compositional devices to local topography.
Provenance F. T. Robinson, Boston (sold to Marquand); Henry G. Marquand, New York (until 1895)
Exhibition History New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Landscape Paintings," May 14–September 30, 1934, no. 20.
Indianapolis. John Herron Art Museum. "The Young Rembrandt and His Times," February 14–March 23, 1958, no. 53.
San Diego. Fine Arts Gallery. "The Young Rembrandt and His Times," April 11–May 18, 1958, no. 53.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
References T. H. Fokker in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler . 25, Leipzig, 1931, p. 49.in Dutch Art and Architecture: 1600 to 1800 . Baltimore, 1966, p. 149.Dutch Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century . London, 1966, p. 26, fig. 25.in Dutch Art and Architecture: 1600 to 1800 . rev. ed. Harmondsworth, England, 1972, p. 252.A Guide to Dutch Art in America . Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 190.in Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting . Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Boston, 1987, p. 376, fig. 3.Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections . Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. New York, 1988, p. 97 n. 3, under no. 32.Great Dutch Paintings from America . Exh. cat., Mauritshuis, The Hague. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1990, p. 36.Dutch Painting 1600–1800 . New Haven, 1995, p. 187.Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 490–92, no. 125, colorpl. 125, fig. 115 (infrared reflectogram mosaic detail); vol. 2, p. 803.Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), p. 14.
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