id:			123350
accession number:	1943.589.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.589.1
updated:		2025-12-28 21:27:22.897000

Landscape with Four Peasants Conversing, 1626. Pieter Molyn (Dutch, 1595–1661). Etching; platemark: 15 x 18.4 cm (5 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1943.589.1

title:				Landscape with Four Peasants Conversing
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creation date:			1626
creation date earliest:		1626
creation date latest:		1626
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hollstein XIV.70.1

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CREATORS

* Pieter Molyn (Dutch, 1595–1661)  - artist

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measurements: Platemark: 15 x 18.4 cm (5 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
state of the work:	I/II
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	inscription:	On plate, middle top, in cartouche: "Pieter de Molyn fecit et excvdit. Ano 1626."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Dutch Painting, The Golden Age
	opening date:   1955-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>Dutch Painting, The Golden Age</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

	title:		Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics
	opening date:   1982-04-27T04:00:00
	<i>Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, NY)
	date: July 16, 1928
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	Lewis Blair Williams (1880-1966) and Helen Electa Croxton Williams, Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?–1943
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 29, 1943–
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