Aelbert Cuyp

Piping Shepherds



Aelbert Cuyp - Piping Shepherds



Aelbert Cuyp
Piping Shepherds
c. 1643-44
90.8 x 119.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: A cuÿp. F.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 331
Reiss 51

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 31


Provenance

William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, London and Parkstead House, Roehampton, Surrey, until d. 1793
Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, 1793–died 1844
his sale, Christie's, London, 5-7 February 1801, nr. 60, bought in
his anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 7 April 1801, nr. 60, bought in
John William Ponsonby, 4th Earl of Bessborough, 1844–died 1847
John George Brabazon Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough, 1847–died 1880
his sale, 1 April 1848, nr. 87, bought in
Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby, 6th Earl of Bessborough, 1880–92
sale, March 14, 1891, nr. 148, bought in
sale, June, 1892, nr. 66, to Colnaghi
with Martin Colnaghi, London, from 1892
with Sedelmeyer, Paris, in 1894
Collis P. Huntington, New York, until died 1900
life interest to his widow, Arabella D. Huntington, later (from 1913) Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, 1900–died 1924
life interest to their son, Archer Milton Huntington, 1924–terminated in 1925

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 25.110.15

Other works by Aelbert Cuyp


Aelbert Cuyp Cows in a river
Cows in a river
c. 1650

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

Aelbert Cuyp Open countryside with shepherds and animals
Open countryside with shepherds and animals
c. 1640

Ascribed to Aelbert Cuyp A Shepherd with his Flock
A Shepherd with his Flock

Aelbert Cuyp Shepherd
Shepherd
c. 1645-55