MOLENAER Marines, Madrid Museum. Michiels, vi. 143 ; Nagler, Mon., ii. 135 ; Rooses (Reber), 110 ; Van den Brauden, 272. MOLENAER, JAN MIENSE, born in Haarlem, died there, buried Sept. 19, 1GG8. Dutch school ; genre painter ; imitator, if not pupil, of Frans Hals, later influenced by Rembrandt. His pictures representing peasant life are animated, the colouring warm and clear. Works : Peasant Woman and Boy, Buckingham Palace, London ; Tailor's Shop, Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers ; Dutch Interiors (2), Brussels Mu- seum ; Evening Prayer, Amsterdam Muse- um ; Village Festival (1G58), Hague Muse- um ; Two Rustic Interiors, Rotterdam Mu- seum ; Merry Peasant Party, Peasant and Fiddler, Dresden Gallery ; Interior of Flem- ish Tavern, Village Wedding, Musi'e Rath, Geneva; Tavern with Dancer (1G59), Bal- lad Singer, Berlin Museum ; Guard Room, Brunswick Museum ; Peasant Wedding in Village Inn, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Jealous Wife at the Inn (1650), Gallery, Copenha- gen ; Frugal Repast, Moltke Collection, ib.; Peasants at Cards in Tavern, Darmstadt Mu- seum ; do. (2), and Peasants Dancing, Kuust- halle, Hamburg ; Smoker holding a Glass, Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort; Dutch School- room, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck ; Interior of a Smithy, Konigsberg Museum ; Peasants Carousing, Leipsic Museum ; Winter Land- scape with Skaters, Oldenburg Gallery ; Rustic Interior, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Interior with many Figures, Winter Palace, ib.; Peasants at Cards, Schleissheim Gal- lery ; Peasant with Mug, Woman Singing, Merry Company, Peasants' Brawl, Schwerin Gallery ; Peasant Company (2), Feast of the Bean, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; Boors Regaling, The * %*J jd.J&f* ciety, New York. Allgem. d. Biog., xxii. 210 ; Bode, Studien, 199, 615 ; Burger, Mu- 1 sees, ii. 268 ; Immerzeel, ii. 234 ; Kugler ! (Crowe), ii. 426 ; Kramm, iv. 1139 ; Riegel, j Beitrage, ii. 338 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xvii. 157. I / V I | - /I ! MOLENAER, NICOLAAS or KLAAS, born in Haarlem, died there, buried Dec. 31, 1676. Dutch school ; landscape and genre painter in the manner of Isaak von Ostade and Dekker ; joined the Haarlem guild in 1651. Has often been confounded with the much earlier Flemish master, Cor- nelis Molenaer. Works : Bleachery, Rotter- dam Museum ; Canal with Skaters, Hermit- age, St. Petersburg ; Winter Landscape, Christiauia Gallery ; do., Bamberg Gallery ; do., Leipsic Museum ; do., and Peasants at the Inn, Scliweriii Gallery ; do., Historical Society, New York ; Two River Landscapes, j Brunswick Gallery ; Ballad Singer before [ Village Inn (1G50), Schleissheim Gallery ; , Two Landscapes, Stuttgart Museum ; Win- ter Landscape, and' two others, Liech- ( teusteiu Gallery, f ! Vienna. Kugler / V f (Crowe), ii. 42G ; Kramm, iv. 1130 ; Bode, Studien, 205 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 353, 398 ; , Van der Willigen, 225. MOLENAER, PEETER. See .Uctilcncr. MOLIKRE BREAKFASTING WITH LOUIS XIV., Jean Leon Gcrfmie, James H. Stebbins, New York. Scene illustrating a doubtful story narrated by Madame Cam- pan, that the King, when trying to create the drama in France, finding that his gen- tlemen refused to dine with Moliere, the upholsterer's son, put them to shame by in- viting him to his own table. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America. Art Treas. of Amer., i. 99. By Hegesippe Jean Vetter, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 2 in. x 3 f t. 3 in. Salon, 1864. MOLESTO, IL. See Jmac and Rebekah, Marriage of. MOLLER, JENS PETER, born at Faa- borg, in Fiinen, Oct. 5, 1783, died in Copen- hagen, Sept. 29, 1854. Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy ; visited Bel- gium, France, and Italy, in 1810-13, studied in Paris the works of Claude Lorrain, re- turned to Denmark in 1815, became profes- 279
