AELBERT CUYP (DORDRECHT 1620-1691) - photo 1
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AELBERT CUYP (DORDRECHT 1620-1691)

Lot 27
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -04:00
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Starting price
$ 600 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027473
Lot 27 | AELBERT CUYP (DORDRECHT 1620-1691)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 800 000
AELBERT CUYP (DORDRECHT 1620-1691)

A landscape with riders on a path

signed 'A. cuijp.' (lower left)

oil on canvas

25 ½ x 30 3/8 in. (65.8 x 77 cm.)





Provenance

Thomas B. Brown (c. 1790-1875), London, and by whom sold in 1839 for 600 gns. to,

Edmund Foster (1793-1862), Clewer Manor, Windsor, Berkshire, and by descent to his son,

Edmund Benson Foster (1824-1917), Clewer Manor, Windsor, Berkshire; his sale, Christie's, London, 3 June 1876, lot 12, where acquired for 4,800 gns. by Rutte on behalf of,

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), Paris.

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of Paris after May 1940 (ERR no. R 11).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point on 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 1013/1).

Returned to France on 27 March 1946 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1842, IX, pp. 652-653, no.12.

G. F. Waagen, Treasures of art in Great Britain: being an account of the chief collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, illuminated mss., &c. &c., London, 1854, II, p. 452, as 'Albert Cuyp'.

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1909, II, p. 140, no.457, as 'Aelbert Cuyp'.

Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre, 1939–1945: II: Tableaux, tapisseries et sculptures, Paris, 1947, p. 103, no. 1796.

S. Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, London, 1975, p. 195 and 208 , no.155, as 'Cuyp follower unknown date', illustrated in black and white.

A. D. Chong, Alebert Cuyp and the meaning of landscape, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1992, p. 53, 422, 442, 457, no. C31, under 'rejected attributions'.
Artist:Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (1620 - 1691)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
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