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A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River
by Aelbert Cuyp
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: A:cüyp
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, no. 16, 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.
Exhibition history
London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Old Masters in Aid of the National Art-Collections Fund, 1911, cat. 63, ill. pl. 63. London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, A Loan Exhibition of a Well-known Private Collection, 1915, cat. 27. Birmingham, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Some Dutch Cabinet Pictures of the Seventeenth-Century, Aug. 6–Oct. 8, 1950, cat. 10. London, Royal Academy of Arts, A Fanfare for Europe, 1953, no cat. no. London, National Gallery, Aelbert Cuyp in British Collections, Jan. 3–Feb. 11, 1973, cat. 4. Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, 1989–90, cat. 100. Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, September 28, 2019-January 5, 2020.
Publications
Stephen Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, Boston and London, 1975, p. 54, no. 26, ill. Alan Chong, "Aelbert Cuyp and the Meaning of Landscape", PhD. dissertation, New York University, 1992, p. 304, no. 56 "The Story of Art Retold: New Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo (October 2008): 47 (color ill.). Haboldt & Co.'s, Singular Vision: Haboldt & Co.'s Old Master Paintings and Drawings since 1983. Amsterdamn: Haboldt & Co., 2012. p. 265.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1621–1691)
- Date
- c. 1643–c. 1645
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 40 × 55 cm (15 3/4 × 21 5/8 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 72.1 × 5.7 cm (22 1/2 × 28 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Dordrecht
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Fund
- Accession no.
- 2003.169
More by Aelbert Cuyp in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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