A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River
Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1621–1691)
c. 1643–c. 1645
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About this work
Aelbert Cuyp never traveled to Italy, yet he employed the golden light typical of southern Europe to dramatize his distinctly Dutch pastoral subjects. He enhanced views of the meandering rivers and flat terrain with cows and sheep, animals that abounded in the local countryside. In this relatively early painting, his use of a warm, monochrome color palette reflects the influence of his older contemporary, Jan van Goyen.
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 40 × 55 cm (15 3/4 × 21 5/8 in.)
Museum record · 5 owners · 7 exhibitions
Provenance
- Dowdeswell Gallery, London.
- Mrs. Fleischmann, by 1911 (lent by her to London, 1911).
- Noel Ashcroft, Birmingham, by 1915 (lent by him to Birmingham, 1915); by descent to his widow (lent by her to Birmingham 1950); on loan to Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1968 to 1992; sold, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1992, to Galerie Edel, Cologne and London.
- Galerie Edel, Cologne and London.
- Private Collection, Germany; sold through agency of Edel to Haboldt & Co., Paris and New York, by 2003; sold to the Art Institute, 2003.
Exhibitions
- London, Grafton Galleries, 1911, Exhibition of Old Masters in Aid of the National Art-Collections Fund, ill. (catalogue by Roger Fry and Maurice Brockwell).
- London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1915, A Loan Exhibition of a Well-known Private Collection.
- Birmingham, Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1950, Some Dutch Cabinet Pictures of the Seventeenth-Century.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1953, A Fanfare for Europe, no cat., National Gallery, 1973, Aelbert Cuyp in British Collections.
- Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, 1989/1990, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century.
- Images of a Golden Age in British Collections (catalogue by Christopher Wright and Richard Lockett).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, September 28, 2019-January 5, 2020.
