Peasants at the Edge of a Wood

Also known as: Edge of a Wood with Five Peasants; Landscape with Trees

Inscriptions

VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in graphite: 987 ; lower left, in graphite: Molyn [sideways] ; lower left, in graphite: [j ?]n 6681 [6681 underlined] ; lower right, in graphite: 2242 ; OLD MAT (two fragments, now removed), in graphite: W 74 / 42/21 / 44/64 ; in graphite: "Molyn" ; in graphite: Coll. Spencer Churchill / Coll. Coghlan Briscoe / Coll. J.H.J. Mellaart / Coll. ten Cate (264) / O.M.D. March 1927

Provenance

Edward George Spencer-Churchill, Northwick Park and Cheltenham Coghlan Briscoe, Dublin J.H.J. Mellaart Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate, Almelo 1966: [C. G. Boerner, Inc., Düsseldorf] Edward George Spencer-Churchill, Northwick Park and Cheltenham (L. Suppl. 2709a, not stamped) (according to Boerner cat. Nov. 1966, no. 64). Coghlan Briscoe, Dublin (L. Suppl. 347c, not stamped) (according to Boerner cat. Nov. 1966, no. 64). J.H.J. Mellaart (not stamped, not in Lugt) (according to Hannema 1955, vol. 1, p. 148, cat. no. 264). Hendrikus Egbertus ten Cate, Almelo (L. Suppl. 533b, not stamped, D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H.E. ten Cate Collection, 2 vols. (Rotterdam, 1955), vol. 1, p. 148, cat. no. 264, vol. 2, pl. 95). [C. G. Boerner, Inc., Düsseldorf] (cat. Jan. 1966, no. 21, pl. 8; cat. Nov. 1966, no. 64, pl. 36)

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982). National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). Northern Landscape Traditions: 16th and 17th Century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10-December 31, 1989).

Quick Overview

Artist: Jacob van Mosscher (Dutch, 1655)
Date: c. 1630
Medium: black chalk and brush and brown wash; framing lines in black ink
Dimensions: Sheet: 35.8 x 51.9 cm (14 1/8 x 20 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.8 x 51.9 cm (14 1/8 x 20 7/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: Delia E. Holden Fund
Accession no.: 1967.23

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.