Aelbert Cuyp
Lady and gentleman on horseback
begun c. 1655, completed 1660-65123 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
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
A herdsman with five cows by a river
c. 1650
c. 1650
Travelers in a Hilly Countryside
c. 1650-52
c. 1650-52
The Valkhof at Nijmegen from the Northwest
mid 1650s
mid 1650s
Landscape in waning light
River landscape with bridge
early 1640s
early 1640s