Marines, Madrid Museum.—Michiels, vi. 143; Nagler, Mon., ii. 135; Rooses (Reber), 116; Van den Branden, 272.
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MOLENAER, JAN MIENSE, born in
Haarlem, died there, buried Sept. 19, 1668.
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 Museum;
Evening Prayer, Amsterdam Museum;
Village Festival (1658), Hague Museum;
Two Rustic Interiors, Rotterdam Museum;
Merry Peasant Party, Peasant and
Fiddler, Dresden Gallery; Interior of Flemish
Tavern, Village Wedding, Musée Rath,
Geneva; Tavern with Dancer (1659), Ballad
Singer, Berlin Museum; Guard Room,
Brunswick Museum; Peasant Wedding in
Village Inn, Carlsruhe Gallery; Jealous
Wife at the Inn (1650), Gallery, Copenhagen;
Frugal Repast, Moltke Collection, ib.;
Peasants at Cards in Tavern, Darmstadt Museum;
do. (2), and Peasants Dancing, Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Smoker holding a Glass,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Dutch School-*room,
Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Interior
of a Smithy, Königsberg Museum; Peasants
Carousing, Leipsic Museum; Winter Landscape
with Skaters, Oldenburg Gallery;
Rustic Interior, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Interior with many Figures, Winter Palace,
ib.; Peasants at Cards, Schleissheim Gallery;
Peasant with Mug, Woman Singing,
Merry Company, Peasants' Brawl, Schwerin
Gallery; Peasant Company (2), Feast of the
Bean, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Boors
Regaling, The
Bean King,
Historical Society,
New York.—Allgem. d. Biog., xxii.
210; Bode, Studien, 199, 615; Burger, Musées,
ii. 268; Immerzeel, ii. 234; Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 426; Kramm, iv. 1139; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 338; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 157.
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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, Cornelis
Molenaer. Works: Bleachery, Rotterdam
Museum; Canal with Skaters, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Winter Landscape,
Christiania Gallery; do., Bamberg Gallery;
do., Leipsic Museum; do., and Peasants at
the Inn, Schwerin Gallery; do., Historical
Society, New York; Two River Landscapes,
Brunswick Gallery; Ballad Singer before
Village Inn (1650), Schleissheim Gallery;
Two Landscapes, Stuttgart Museum; Winter
Landscape, and
two others, Liechtenstein
Gallery,
Vienna.—Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 426; Kramm, iv. 1130; Bode,
Studien, 205; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 353, 398;
Van der Willigen, 225.
MOLENAER, PEETER. See Meulener.
MOLIÈRE BREAKFASTING WITH
LOUIS XIV., Jean Léon Gérôme, James H.
Stebbins, New York. Scene illustrating a
doubtful story narrated by Madame Campan,
that the King, when trying to create
the drama in France, finding that his gentlemen
refused to dine with Molière, the
upholsterer's son, put them to shame by inviting
him to his own table. Photogravure
in Art Treasures of America.—Art Treas. of
Amer., i. 99.
By Hégésippe Jean Vetter, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 2 ft. 2 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Salon, 1864.
MOLINO, IL. See Isaac and Rebekah,
Marriage of.
MOLLER, JENS PETER, born at Faaborg,
in Fünen, Oct. 5, 1783, died in Copenhagen,
Sept. 29, 1854. Landscape painter,
pupil of Copenhagen Academy; visited Belgium,
France, and Italy, in 1810-13, studied
in Paris the works of Claude Lorrain, returned
to Denmark in 1815, became profes-
