The Pigeon House
1660 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
genreThe painting probably takes its nineteenth-century title from the wooden shelter with a slanted roof on the tower, and from the birds fluttering about. Similar towers, usually attached to the remains of a fortified wall, occur in a number of paintings by Klaes Molenaer, but Van Vries himself often depicted tall, square towers, most of them attached to ruined castles or river forts. The Pigeon House shows a few peasants going about their daily business, such as the fisherman who works in his boat, and the old lady going down to the river to meet him.
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