Landscape with a Cottage
by MOLYN, Pieter de, Oil on wood, 38 x 55 cm
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.