Aelbert Cuyp

The baptism of the Eunuch



Aelbert Cuyp - The baptism of the Eunuch



Aelbert Cuyp
The baptism of the Eunuch
c. 1653
117 x 171 cm
Oil on canvas
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 11 and 12
Reiss 118



Provenance

Sale, Paillet, Paris (probably the property of John Berteis), 27 March 1786, nr. 3)
with Lebrun, Paris
Widow Lebas-Courmant le jeune sale, Paillet, Paris, 26 May 1795, nr. 10
1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, 1834
to the 2d duke
sale, at house, Christies, 15 August 1848, nr. 437
with Thomas B. Brown, London
Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bt., Marchmont House, Scotland, 1857
Baron Gustave de Rothschild, Paris, 1908
by descent to his grandson Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., London
with Asscher, Koetser and Welker, London, 1926
sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1928, nr. 65
with G. Matthiesen, Berlin
Reinhardt Gallery, New York
Arthur Ruck, London
Sir Duncan Watson
sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 1947, nr. 53
with Hugh Leggatt, London
with Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1st Baron Fairhaven, Anglesbey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
collection bequest to National Trust, 1966
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Jacob and Aelbert Cuyp Portrait of a family in a landscape
Portrait of a family in a landscape
1641

Aelbert Cuyp A pier in Dordrecht harbor
A pier in Dordrecht harbor
early 1640s

Aelbert Cuyp Landscape with the Ruins of Rijnsburg Abbey
Landscape with the Ruins of Rijnsburg Abbey
c. 1645

Aelbert Cuyp Dordrecht harbor by moonlight
Dordrecht harbor by moonlight
c. 1643-45

Aelbert Cuyp Cattle and herders with Mariakerk, Utrecht
Cattle and herders with Mariakerk, Utrecht
early 1640s