MOLYN, Pieter de
(b. 1595, London, d. 1661, Haarlem)

Landscape with a Cottage

1629
Oil on wood, 38 x 55 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pictures of peasant cottages flourished in the Netherlands during the early seventeenth century, especially in Haarlem, Amsterdam, and Utrecht. The present panel from De Molyn's early period is a rolling dune landscape west of Haarlem, where trees and bushes stubbornly survive in the sandy soil.