Aelbert Cuyp

Lady and gentleman on horseback



Aelbert Cuyp - Lady and gentleman on horseback



Aelbert Cuyp
Lady and gentleman on horseback
begun c. 1655, completed 1660-65
123 x 172 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: A.Cuijp.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 618
Reiss 124

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 50-56
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 397


Exhibitions


2001 Aelbert Cuyp, Nr. 40

Provenance


With Thomas Emmerson (c. 1776-1855), London before 1834
purchased through Henry Artaria by Edmund Higginson (1802-1871), Saltmarshe Castle, near Bromyard, Herefordshire, before 1842
his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 4 June 1846, nr. 212, as The Departure for the Chase, bought in
his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 16 June 1860, nr. 34, as The Departure for the Chase
with Charles J. Nieuwenhuys, Brussels and London
Adrian John Hope (1811-1863), London
his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 30 June 1894, nr. 22, as Grand Landscape
with Charles J. Wertheimer, London
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris
sold 1894 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
gift 1942 to NGA


Other works by Aelbert Cuyp



Aelbert Cuyp Landscape with horse trainers
Landscape with horse trainers
late 1650s

Aelbert Cuyp A herdsman with five cows by a river
A herdsman with five cows by a river
c. 1650

Aelbert Cuyp A farm with cottages and animals
A farm with cottages and animals
c. 1642-43

Aelbert Cuyp Portrait of a woman aged twenty-one as a hunter
Portrait of a woman aged twenty-one as a hunter
1651

Aelbert Cuyp River landscape with bridge
River landscape with bridge
early 1640s