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

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

Aelbert Cuyp Wooded landscape with an artist
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Aelbert Cuyp River landscape with bridge
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Aelbert Cuyp Young Herdsmen with Cows
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