Lot 1268 D α

Pieter de Molijn - Travellers Resting by their Coach

Auction 1067 - overview Cologne
21.05.2016, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €

Pieter de Molijn

Travellers Resting by their Coach

Oil on panel. 40 x 60.5 cm.
Dated lower right: 1645.

The present work was formerly ascribed to Isaac van Ostade. However, in his monograph on Ter Borch published in 1959/60, Gudlaugsson attributed the piece to Borch's tutor Pieter de Molijn. The artists are known to have collaborated, and the attribution to Molijn is generally accepted today.

Provenance

Private collection, Netherlands.