Pieter van Mol

In 1644 he is recorded residing among the circle of Flemish and Dutch artists active in Paris, which included Jacques Fouquier, Philippe Vleughels, Willem Kalf, Nicasius Bernaerts and Peter van Boucle.

[6] Pieter van Mol was mainly a painter of religious subject matter, and to a lesser extent, of stories from Antiquity.

[1] The style of van Mol is varied ranging from a precise and fixed execution bordering sometimes on the archaic such as in the Lamentation of Christ (Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes), which is almost an homage to the Flemish Primitives.

His frescoes in the chapelle du Sacré-Cœur in the Église Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes and the Deposition in the Louvre show his debt to Rubens.

[5] Pieter van Mol was active as a portrait painter but his works in this genre are only known through engravings and some head studies.

A composition entitled Flemish dance was in the collection of the Palais Royal and was engraved by Carl Guttenberg between 1786 and 1808.

[10] Reportedly, the sale in Antwerp of prints after Pieter van Mol's work caused something of a scandal as they were considered more indecent than those of Agostino Carracci.