The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 6, 2023

August: Landscape with Wagons

c.1655

Pieter Molyn

(Dutch, 1595–1661)

Netherlands

Black chalk and brush and gray wash over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Beige(1) laid paper

Sheet: 14.8 x 19.6 cm (5 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.541

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

[signed?], upper right, in black chalk: PMoLyn.[P and M in ligature] - / 1655 - [underlined] ; [signed?], lower right, in black chalk: PMoly [Pand M in ligature] ; VERSO, lower left, in brown ink: Aùgùstÿ ; lower left, in graphite: 43. ; lower left, in graphite: /250..-- ; lower center, in graphite: A5072

Provenance
[Colnaghi & Co.]
Exhibition history

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937).

Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 30-October 30, 1938).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Promenades, Pageants, Processions, and Pilgrimages. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 25, 1981-January 3, 1982).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1929.541