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 Marines, Madrid Museum.—Michiels, vi. 143; Nagler, Mon., ii. 135; Rooses (Reber), 116; Van den Branden, 272.

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.

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