Boeren op weg naar de jaarmarkt
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Jan Miense MOLENAER (Haarlem ca. 1610-1668 Haarlem)
259 Peasants on Their Way to a Fair
Graphite, pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash. Framing line in pen and brown ink.
Slightly discoloured along the top, where the sheet was at one time folded over; top section strengthened on verso.
182 x 245 mm.
Watermark: Lily in a crowned coat of arms with monogram WR (cf. Churchill, no. 427).
Chain lines: 25-29 mm (h).
Signed, lower left: JM (linked) olenaer (graphite). Inscribed on verso, upper centre: No 1: f3-3- (pencil); centre: 1076 (pencil).
Provenance: probably H. de Wacker van Zon; his sale, Amsterdam, 26 October 1761 (Lugt 1178), A 59, bt. Busserus (f 30.10); H. Busserus; his sale, Amsterdam 21 October 1782 (Lugt 3469), no. 641, bt. Fouquet (f 4.5).
W.C.P. baron van Reede van Oudtshoorn; his sale, Amsterdam, 27 October 1874 (Lugt 35096), no. 280, bt. Van Gogh for the Museum (f 21.-).
Inv. 1864: P 87 (added).
Inv. no.: P* 1.
Bibliography: Scholten 1904, p. 157; Mellaart 1926, p. 32, no. 42 (repr.).
Drawings by Jan Miense Molenaer are relatively rare and his drawn oeuvre remains obscure. Two comparable drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet (inv. nos. 66:9 and 4619) have been dated early, around 1635 (Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 14, 1966, p. 48). Schnackenburg however (1981, I, p. 38) believes that Molenaer did not make any drawings at all in his early years. Since the courtly subjects of Molenaer's early paintings make way for less elegant themes at the end of the 1630s and in the 1640s, a later date than the Amsterdam sheets seems plausible for the present work, with its slightly fuddled-looking peasants. A drawing in the British Museum, closely related to ours, could be a preliminary study for it or an unfinished earlier version (Hind 1915-32, III, p. 146, no. 1, repr.).


Object numberP+ 001
TitleBoeren op weg naar de jaarmarkt
Creator Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 ca.-1668) (tekenaar)
DescriptionZeven boeren voor een ruïne op weg naar een dorp dat links op de achtergrond ligt.
Date (free text)ongedateerd
Object nametekening
Materialpapier
Techniquepotlood, pen in bruin, penseel in bruin
Dimensions
- papier hoogte: 182 mm
papier breedte: 245 mm
opzet hoogte: 480 mm
opzet breedte: 617 mm
Documentation
Related object
Inscription creator/content
LMolenaer
No 1: f3-3-
1076
Marque de papier: Ecu à fleur de Lis couronné. environ 1660 à 1670
WR
