




Pieter Mulier the Elder(Haarlem circa 1615-circa 1661)Two sailing boats on open water
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Pieter Mulier the Elder (Haarlem circa 1615-circa 1661)
signed with monogram 'P*' (on boat, lower centre)
oil on panel
39.5 x 43.1cm (15 9/16 x 16 15/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
Sale, Tajan, Paris, 12 December 1995, lot 33 (as Abraham van Beijeren)
Sale, Piasa, Paris, 20 June 1997, lot 171 (as Pieter Coopse)
With Hoogsteder and Hoogsteder, The Hague, 1997, where purchased in 1998 by
Mr and Mrs Anthony Inder Rieden
Collection of a Family Trust
Exhibited
The Hague, Bredius Museum, 10 December 2019 - 1 March 2020
Literature
G. de Beer, The Golden Age of Dutch Marine Paintings. The Inder Rieden Collection, Leiden, 2019, vol. 2, pp. 466-470, cat.no. 23, ill.
The present work, by Haarlem based Mulier, is clearly influenced by the pioneer of Dutch marine painting, Jan Porcellis (1584-1632). This is particularly evident in Mulier's portrayal of the atmospheric, choppy sea, which can be compared to Jan Porcellis's An Estuary in Stormy Weather, now in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (inv.no. 1675); see in particular the structure and shape of the waves using broad brushstrokes in greys and browns in the foreground of the present work; and the dramatic use of light and shadows.