Sunday, June 9, 2019

Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) - Drawings - II

Pier Francesco Mola
Tomb in a Landscape
before 1666
drawing
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Pier Francesco Mola
Triumph of Silenus
before 1666
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum

Pier Francesco Mola
Apollo and Daphne
before 1666
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Pier Francesco Mola
Adonis departing for the Chase
before 1666
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum

Pier Francesco Mola
Abduction of Europa
before 1666
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Pier Francesco Mola
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1647-48
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pier Francesco Mola
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1647-50
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Pier Francesco Mola
Landscape with Windblown Trees
before 1666
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

"Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) began under Cavaliere d'Arpino but received his direction for life from a prolonged stay at Venice.  Not back in Rome until 1647, he used in the following two decades a rich palette of warm brownish tones and created works in which once again the landscape element often forms the hub of the composition.  He gave his best in small pictures which display a quite personal idyllic and even elegiac quality."

– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999

Pier Francesco Mola
Landscape with Figures beside a Stream
ca. 1660-66
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pier Francesco Mola
Landscape with Figures
before 1666
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pier Francesco Mola
Venus with the Three Graces and Iris in Flight with Putti
(design for ceiling decoration)
ca. 1650
drawing
Museo del Prado, Madrid

attributed to Pier Francesco Mola
God the Father surrounded by Putti
(design for ceiling decoration)
before 1666
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Pier Francesco Mola
Erminia with the Shepherds
before 1666
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pier Francesco Mola
Landscape with Group of Trees
before 1666
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pier Francesco Mola
Joseph making himself known to his Brethren
(study for fresco in Palazzo Quirinale, Rome)
ca. 1656
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago