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 |