A River Landscape with a Horseman on a Road
Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 - Dordrecht 1691)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1640 - 1691
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
603 x 730 mm (23 3/4 x 28 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Dordrecht
Order this imageCollection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535112
Summary
Oil painting on panel, A River Landscape with a Horseman on a Road by Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 – Dordrecht 1691), signed, bottom left: A cuÿp. On a road in the foreground a horesman in red jacket halts to converse wuith a herdsman, whose flock of sheep and cows lie along the verge; across a stretch of water is a ruined castle beside a ruin; hill rise at the right and on the left is an extensive plain. The scene is a summer evening. It has in the past been described as a view near Nymwegen; the ruined castle bears some resemblance to that of Ubbergen, in the vicinity of Nymwegen (Nijm[w]egen, Gelderland), but the scene is likely to be imaginative.
Provenance
Successively consigned by otherwise unknown Strapani/Strappini/Strappani/Strepani to Christie's, 25 June 1825, lot 104 (bought in at 150 gns.), and 26 May 1826, lot 24 (bought in at 110 gns.), and then to Edward Foster, 27 June 1832, lot M (bought in at £69.9.0.) [information from Burton Frederickson of the Getty Provenance Index, letter of 5 March 2001]; J.Newington Hughes 1834; his sale Christie's 15 April 1848, lot 161; bought by Nieuwenhuys; Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808 - 1879); Colonel W. A. Hankey, Beaulieu, Hastings; Charles Sedelmeyer [Galerie] by 1899; Oscar Huldschinsky (1846-1931) sale, Berlin, 10th May 1928, lot 6; Anthony de Rothschild (1887-1961); accepted in lieu of inheritance tax by HM Government and allocated to the National Trust, 2000.
Credit line
Ascott, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 - Dordrecht 1691), artist
References
Ascott, Buckinghamshire, Scala, 2008 by John Martin Robinson and others [pictures entries by Karin Wolfe on basis of Gore entries, 1963 with contributions from Alastair Laing] , no. 30