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View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas
by Aelbert Cuyp
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "£*"; lower left, in graphite: "£106"; center, in blue pencil: "405" (in circle); lower right, in graphite: "tor—" (partially erased)
Provenance
William Mitchell (died 1908), Australia, London, and Eastbourne [blind stamp (Lugt 2638), verso, lower left]. William Pitcairn Knowles (1820–1894), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden [stamp (Lugt 2643), verso, lower center in purple]; sold, Frederik Muller and Company, Amsterdam, June 25, 1895. Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt (c. 1840–1914), Berlin [stamp (Lugt 2926), verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Prestel, Frankfurt-am-Main, Oct. 4–11, 1917, lot 153. Curt Otto (c. 1880–1929), Leipzig; sold, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 7, 1929, lot 46. Sold, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Apr. 28, 1939, lot 371 to Mertens [correspondence with Dr. F. Carlo Schmid of C. G. Boerner, Mar. 2004 in curatorial file]. Sold by Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.
Exhibition history
Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Jan. 30–Mar. 13, 1977; also the Denver Art Museum, Apr. 1–May 15, 1977; and Fort Worth, Tex., the Kimbell Art Museum, June 1–July 15, 1977, cat. 57, pp. 59–60. Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 78–79, cat. 30 (ill.); also the St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 247, 251 (ill.), 293, 330, cat. 95, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums April–June 1967,” The Art Quarterly 30 (Winter 1967), p. 268 (ill p. 278). Aelbert Cuyp en zijn familie: schilders te Dordrecht, exh. cat., Dordrechts Museum, 12 November 1977–8 January 1978, under cat. no. 45, p. 122, note 3.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Aelbert Cuyp / Dutch, 1620-1691
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- Brush and black and yellow ochre watercolors, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 14.5 × 19 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Worcester Sketch Fund
- Accession no.
- 1967.383
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