MULIER, Pieter the Elder
(b. ca. 1610, Haarlem, d. 1670, Haarlem)

A Kaag on a Choppy Sea, a Rowing Boat in the Foreground

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Oil on oak panel, 32 x 38 cm
Private collection

This is a highly characteristic work by the Haarlem artist Pieter Mulier, whose strongly tonal sea pieces painted almost entirely in shades of grey, are characterized by a warm pink ground.