Peasants returning Home
Peasants returning Home Peasants returning Home

By Pieter Pietersz de Molijn

Peasants returning home. A woman is carrying the harvest on her head. The landscape is painted in tints of green and brown with very few bright colours. This ‘tonal’ use of colours was fashionable in landscape painting around 1630-1640. Pieter de Molijn was born in London with Flemish parents. At the age of about 20 he went to live in Haarlem. De Molijn painted the landscapes in the background on a few of Hals’s portraits.

Year

1647

Material

oil on canvas

Dimensions

76 x 93,5 cm

Credit

Frans Hals Museum, Acquired with support from the Rembrandt Association

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Peasants returning Home
Peasants returning Home Peasants returning Home

By Pieter Pietersz de Molijn