03 — ARTWORK
Dune Landscape
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel, 41 x 58 cm
- TYPE
- Landscape
PALETTE
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Pieter Molyn was one of the key figures in the so-called 'tonal phase' of Haarlem landscape painting. These landscapes were characterized by the simplicity of their subject matter, with the emphasis on realismRealism (with an upper case "R"), also known as the Realist school, denotes a mid-nineteenth century art movement and style in which artists discarded the formulas of Neoclassicism and the theatrical drama of Romanticism to paint familiar scenes and events as they actually looked. Typically it involved some sort of sociopolitical or moral message, in the depiction of ugly or commonplace subjects. One of the main representatives and spokesmen was the painter Gustave Courbet. In the dispute about ways to represent reality, Realism rebelled against the idealistic and classicist tendencies in painting., and were executed with a broad handling of the paint, the palette restricted to dull yellows, browns and greens. This important phase in the development of Netherlandish landscape painting began circa 1626 and continued throughout the 1630s.
The present painting, a typical early tonal work by Molyn, shows a dune landscape with travellers resting, extensive flatlands beyond.
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title = {Dune Landscape by MOLYN, Pieter de},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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