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Landscape with a Cottage

1629
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 615

This duneland scene is characteristic of a major shift in Dutch landscape painting of the 1620s, as painters began to render modest scenes of local topography in a somber palette of browns, grays, and greens. Rather than enjoying a bird’s-eye perspective on the scene, the viewer is placed low to the ground in an area of heavy shadow. Such paintings embraced the specific qualities of the Dutch landscape at a time of increasing national pride and an ongoing struggle for independence from Spanish rule.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Landscape with a Cottage
  • Artist: Pieter de Molijn (Dutch, London 1595–1661 Haarlem)
  • Date: 1629
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 21 3/4 in. (37.5 x 55.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1895
  • Object Number: 95.7
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Three Peasants and a Woman, Pieter de Molijn Dutch, Etching
Three Peasants and a Woman
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Village on an estuary, with a rowing boat on the shore, Pieter de Molijn Dutch, Black chalk and gray wash
Village on an estuary, with a rowing boat on the shore
Pieter de Molijn
17th century
Figures on a Road, Pieter de Molijn Dutch, Black chalk and gray wash, framing line in pen and gray ink
Figures on a Road
Pieter de Molijn
17th century
Landscape with Figures and Cattle, Pieter de Molijn Dutch, Black chalk and brush and brown wash
Landscape with Figures and Cattle
Pieter de Molijn
1658
Landscape with Two Men on Horseback, Pieter de Molijn Dutch, Black chalk and gray wash
Landscape with Two Men on Horseback
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