Landscape with Figures
Pieter de Molijn
1659
Medium
Black chalk, over brush and gray-brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (18.4 x 29.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1973
Accession Number
1973.68
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
AnimalsLandscapesHuman Figures
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 ...