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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.208
People
Pieter de Molijn, Dutch (London, England 1595 - 1661 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
The Fowlers
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1655
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296619

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
actual: 14.7 x 19.9 cm (5 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black chalk, lower left: PM [in ligature] olyn
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Peter Molyn
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: WX.
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: [inverted triangle] / A71200
  • label: in curatorial file, typeface: PIETER MOLYN, THE ELDER. / "Pieter Molyn was born in London some time be- / fore the year 1600. He left England and went to / Haarlem, where in 1616 he entered the Guild, of / which he became president in 1633. He died at / Haarlem in 1661. He painted landscapes in a very / pleasing style, his foregrounds being enriched with / buildings and ruins in the style of Jan van Goyen." / Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. [On separate fragment, but part of same label:] The Fowlers. / A study of men engaged in netting wild birds. / Pencil and wash in monochrome.
  • label: in curatorial file, typeface and pen: [typeface:] No. I 2063 / From FREDERICK KEPPEL & CO., / Rare Engravings and Etchings, No. 4 East 39th Street, New York. / [in pen:] The Fowlers / original drawing by Peter Molyn, the Elder / 1600 - 1661.
  • inscription: verso, lower right, brown ink: XV
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Possibly Frederik Muller et Cie, Amsterdam, 1912. Sale, 11 June 1912, no. 184], sold; to Otto Gutekunst, Amsterdam. [Frederick Keppel & Co., New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091, without his mark), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.208
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 516, p. 272; vol. 2, repr. fig. 263
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 43, p. 11
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), p. 206
  • Hans-Ulrich Beck, Pieter Molyn 1595-1661: Katalog der Handzeichnungen, Doornspijk (Davaco, 1998), p. 99, cat. no. 154

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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