Volume 9, Issue 2 (Summer 2017) Pieter de Molijn (1597–1661): A Dutch Painter and the Art Market in the Seventeenth Century Marion Boers
[email protected] Recommended Citation: Marion Boers, “Pieter de Molijn (1597–1661): A Dutch Painter and the Art Market in the Sev- enteenth Century,” Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9:2 (Summer 2017) DOI: 10.5092/ jhna.2017.9.2.5 Available at https://jhna.org/articles/pieter-de-molijn-dutch-painter-art-market-seventeenth-cen- tury/ Published by Historians of Netherlandish Art: https://hnanews.org/ Republication Guidelines: https://jhna.org/republication-guidelines/ Notes: This PDF is provided for reference purposes only and may not contain all the functionality or features of the original, online publication. This PDF provides paragraph numbers as well as page numbers for citation purposes. ISSN: 1949-9833 Pieter de Molijn (1597–1661): A Dutch Painter and the Art Market in the Seventeenth Century Marion Boers Pieter de Molijn is considered by present-day art historians to be one of the founders of what is referred to as the tonal phase of naturalistic Dutch landscape painting, a position largely attributable to his Landscape with Dunes painted in 1626. Nevertheless, art historians such as Wolfgang Stechow have suggested that his paintings after 1630 were old-fashioned, lacked originality, and exhibited no further artistic development, and therefore they typify him as merely an epigone of Jan van Goyen and Salomon van Ruisdael. For most of these art historians, innovation seems to be the most important criterion on which to grant painters a place in the art-historical canon.