ID 1344959
Lot 146 | AELBERT CUYP (DORDRECHT 1620-1691)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
River landscape with travellers, a horse and cart next to a barn and windmills in the distance
signed 'A cuyp' (lower right, strengthened)
oil on panel
16 5/8 x 21 ½ in. (42.2 x 54.6 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale [De M.E.A.]; their sale, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 23 February 1904, lot 8 (fl. 2,800 to the following).
with F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris.
with Galerie Charles Brunner, Paris, 1914 and 1920.
H.M. Clark, London, 1920.
Anonymous sale; Arthur Zell, Hanover, 18 May 1949, lot 112.
Professor Neuhaus, Wuppertal.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 28 June 1974, lot 121, where acquired by the following,
with Leger Galleries, London, October 1974, where acquired by the father of the present owners.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, II, London, 1909, p. 210, no. 703.
W. Stechow, 'Significant Dates on some Seventeenth Century Dutch Landscape Paintings,' Oud Holland, LXXV, 1960, pp. 87-8.
Leger Galleries advertisement, Apollo, XCX, November 1974, illustrated.
'Supplement - The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair', Apollo, CI, June 1975, p. S3, no. 6, illustrated.
S. Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, London, 1975, p. 48, no. 20.
A. D. Chong, Aelbert Cuyp and the meanings of landscape, Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1992, pp. 282-3, no. 24.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, London, The National Gallery, and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Aelbert Cuyp, 2001-2, no. 5a (catalogue entry by W. Kloek).
Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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