Landscape with Ruined Castle and Three Figures
Pieter de Molijn
1664
Medium
Black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
18.5 × 29.8 cm (7 5/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84063
Rights
Public Domain
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 ...