Landscape with a Cottage
1629
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
14 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (37.5 x 55.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1895
Accession Number
95.7
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the serene world of Pieter de Molijn's *Landscape with a Cottage*1629), a gem of the Dutch Golden Age painted in oil on wood. intimate panel, measuring just 14¾ x 21¾ inches, captures the humble beauty of rural Holland—a thatched cottage nestled amid dunes, trees, and expansive skies. De Molijn, a Haar-based artist (1595–1661), was among the early pioneers of independent landscape painting, bridging Flemish influences like Jan Brueghel the with the emerging Dutch tradition. In the 1620s, as the Netherlands flourished economically and culturally, artists like de Molijn elevated every...