Landscape with Dunes

Pieter de Molijn also worked as an art dealer and assessor of legacies, and owed his success to his flexibility on the market. His landscapes show dunes, sandy paths and passes, later night-pieces and mountains.
In the "Landscape with Dunes", the staffage figures are going about diverse tasks. On the left, a woman carries a large basket on her back. Centre foreground, a man is loading a musket, while a further man with a hunting dog beside him stalks towards the brushwood, his gun at the ready. Due to chemical change and the resultant fading (oxidisation) of the colours, the group on the right is only dimly distinguishable: a rider on a grey horse, two huntsmen and dogs. The two green trees on the hilltop are a striking feature against the cloudy sky.

Ducke Astrid: Pieter de Molijn, Landscape with Dunes, in: Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas (Hrsg./Edi.): von | from 0 auf | to 100. Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 174-175