Aelbert Cuyp

Herdsmen Tending Cattle



Aelbert Cuyp - Herdsmen Tending Cattle



Aelbert Cuyp
Herdsmen Tending Cattle
1655/60
66 x 87.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left: A.cuijp
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 203
Reiss 92

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 44-46
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 396



Provenance

Possibly Gerard Vandergucht (1696-1776), London, c. 1750
possibly his sale, London, 1757, nr. 66
Jennens, possibly for Henry Penton (died 1806), London
his sale, Skinner & Dyke, London, 10 June 1800, nr. 49
Sir Henry Paulet St. John-Mildmay, 3rd bt. (1764-1808), Dogmersfield House, Hampshire
by inheritance to his wife, Lady Jane St. John-Mildmay (c. 1765-1857), Dogmersfield House
by inheritance to her grandson, Sir Henry Bouverie Paulet St. John-Mildmay, 5th bt. (1810-1902), Dogmersfield House
by inheritance to his son, Sir Henry Paulet St. John-Mildmay, 6th bt. (1853-1916), Dogmersfield House
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, from 1902, sold April 1905 to Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1937.1.59

Other works by Aelbert Cuyp


Aelbert Cuyp Two anglers and cattle on a river bank
Two anglers and cattle on a river bank

Aelbert Cuyp The Trooper
The Trooper
early 1650s

Aelbert Cuyp Dordrecht from the North
Dordrecht from the North
mid 1650s

Aelbert Cuyp Horsemen and herdsmen with cattle
Horsemen and herdsmen with cattle
late 1650s

Aelbert Cuyp River landscape with horseman and peasants
River landscape with horseman and peasants
c. 1660