Aelbert Cuyp
A herdsman with five cows by a river
c. 165045.4 x 74 cm
Oil on panel
Signed, bottom right: A: cuyp:
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 325, 328 and 391
Reiss 88
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 89-90, plate 76
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 166
Literature
Wolfgang Stechow, Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, London, 1966, fig. 117
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 177
Provenance
perhaps in the Nogaret sale, 1780: 'Albert Cuyp. Une Marine: on voit à gauche un canot dans lequel sont deux hommes, dont un pêche à la ligne; en pleine mer plusieurs chaloupes; à droite, au bas d'une masse de rochers, cinq boeufs gardés par un pâtre; effect de soled. Bois. Seize pouces sur vingt-sept.', sold to the Vicomte de Choiseul
presumably the painting by Cuyp in the 1793 Choiseul-Praslin sale: 'A. CUYP. Six Vaches près de la Meuse ornée de barques, et deux matelots qui s'amusent a pêcher. Bois. Seize pouces et demi sur vingt-neuf'
sold in 1822 by John Smith to Joseph Barchard
perhaps the 'Landscape, with Cattle and Figures' by A. Cuyp exhibited by Joseph Barchard at the BI, 1822 (No. 128)
apparently at one time in the possession of C.J. Nieuwenhuys
bought by Sir Robert Peel, Bart., by 1834
National Gallery, London, purchased with the Peel collection, 1871
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Other works by Aelbert Cuyp
Flight into Egypt
late 1650s
late 1650s
Dordrecht from the North
mid 1650s
mid 1650s
Travelers in a Hilly Countryside
c. 1650-52
c. 1650-52
Lady and gentleman on horseback
begun c. 1655, completed 1660-65
begun c. 1655, completed 1660-65
The Valkhof at Nijmegen from the Northwest
mid 1650s
mid 1650s