Landscape with a Cottage
Artist: Pieter de Molijn (Dutch, 1595–1661)
Original Dimensions: 14 3/4" x 21 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1629) "This duneland scene is characteristic of a major shift in Dutch landscape painting of the 1620s, as painters began to render modest scenes of local topography in a somber palette of browns, grays, and greens. Rather than enjoying a bird’s-eye perspective on the scene, the viewer is placed low to the ground in an area of heavy shadow. Such paintings embraced the specific qualities of the Dutch landscape at a time of increasing national pride and an ongoing struggle for independence from Spanish rule." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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