DUTCH SCHOOL 17thC - ANIMATED LANDSCAPE WITH COWS - CIRCLE AELBERT CUYP - INK
Item History & Price
For sale is this 17th century Dutch master drawing.
The drawing, executed in charcoal, pen, ink and grey wash on laid paper, depicts an animated landscape, showing a shepherd with his cows near a river, under a slightly clouded sky.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch-Dordrecht School, given to the circle of Aelbert Cuyp.
AELBERT CUYP (Dordrecht 1620 - Dordrecht 1691) : Dutch landscape painter, draughtsman. Cuyp was the great interpreter of the Dutch landscape in ...the Italianate manner. Early landscapes like are influenced by van Goyen, some of whose paintings show Dordrecht, Cuyp's home town. The work of Utrecht painters, especially Jan Both, who returned from Italy about 1641, helped to turn Cuyp's interest towards large-scale landscapes in the Italianate manner.
Cuyp was the son of the Dordrecht portrait and animal painter, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. His occasional portraits reflect his training with his father. Though based in Dordrecht throughout his life, Cuyp travelled widely in Holland, making drawings. In 1658 he married a wealthy widow and appears to have painted little thereafter.
Period : ca. 1650-1660.
Size : 17, 2x26, 3cm.
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Corners and backside : traces of previous attaching. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The drawing, executed in charcoal, pen, ink and grey wash on laid paper, depicts an animated landscape, showing a shepherd with his cows near a river, under a slightly clouded sky.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch-Dordrecht School, given to the circle of Aelbert Cuyp.
AELBERT CUYP (Dordrecht 1620 - Dordrecht 1691) : Dutch landscape painter, draughtsman. Cuyp was the great interpreter of the Dutch landscape in ...the Italianate manner. Early landscapes like are influenced by van Goyen, some of whose paintings show Dordrecht, Cuyp's home town. The work of Utrecht painters, especially Jan Both, who returned from Italy about 1641, helped to turn Cuyp's interest towards large-scale landscapes in the Italianate manner.
Cuyp was the son of the Dordrecht portrait and animal painter, Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp. His occasional portraits reflect his training with his father. Though based in Dordrecht throughout his life, Cuyp travelled widely in Holland, making drawings. In 1658 he married a wealthy widow and appears to have painted little thereafter.
Period : ca. 1650-1660.
Size : 17, 2x26, 3cm.
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Corners and backside : traces of previous attaching. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 17$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
