Landscape with cottages and a figure by a cart
Pieter de Molijn
17th century
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/4 x 8 7/8 in. (15.8 x 22.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1975.131.156
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
HousesLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Pieter de Molijn · 1595–1661
**Pieter de Molijn** (1595–1661) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter of English birth and Flemish descent, baptized on 6 April 1595 in London at the Dutch Reformed Austin Friars church to parents from Ghent and Brussels. His family likely emigrated to England for economic opportunities, but young Pieter returned to the Netherlands, settling in Haarlem where he joined the Guild of St. Luke in ...