Landscape in the Rhine Valley
Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 - Dordrecht 1691)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1620 - 1691
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1321 x 1842 mm (52 x 72 ½ in)
Place of origin
Rhine Valley
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108881
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape in the Rhine Valley by Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 – Dordrecht 1691), signed: A.cuyp. Herdsmen with cattle in a landscape, a horseman in a red coat on a hillock to the right of a row of trees, followed by a peasant on a mule; evening, cloudy sky.
Provenance
Bought at Dr Robert Bragge’s sale in 1759, for 95 guineas; seen and written about by Lady Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Northumberland (1716-1776), notes on a visit to Kedleston in 1766: “the Drawing Room…is spacious lofty & magnificent it is hung wth very fine Pictures on Blue Damask one of wch over a Setee, by Cuyp is the very best I ever saw of that Master there is a Gold Border round the hanging & the frames of the Pictures are immensely expensive.”; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1903 label on back of stretcher Verso: Royal Academy Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, 1952-1953, label on back of frame
Makers and roles
Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 - Dordrecht 1691), artist attributed to Abraham Pietersz. van Calraet (Dordrecht 1642 - Dordrecht 1722), artist
References
Anon 1874 “The Private Collections of England. No.X – Kedleston Hall”, The Athenæum, 8 August 1874 Reiss 1975 Stephen Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, 1975, pp.189, 208, illus.189, No: 144 Jackson-Stops & Simon 1995: Gervase Jackson-Stops with Robin Simon (ed.) ‘The National Trust 1895-1995 100 Great Treasures. 100 Celebrities select their personal favourites from the Trust’s collections.” Apollo, 1995, p. 64