About This Artwork
A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a Riverc. 1643/45
Oil on panel
15 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. (40 x 55 cm)
Inscribed, lower left: A:cüyp
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Fund, 2003.169
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 213
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
London, Grafton Galleries, 1911, Exhibition of Old Masters in Aid of the National Art-Collections Fund, no. 63, ill. pl. 63 (catalogue by Roger Fry and Maurice Brockwell).
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1915, A Loan Exhibition of a Well-known Private Collection, no. 27. Birmingham, Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1950, Some Dutch Cabinet Pictures of the Seventeenth-Century, no. 10.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1953, A Fanfare for Europe, no cat. no.
London, National Gallery, 1973, Aelbert Cuyp in British Collections, no. 4.
Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, 1989/1990, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, no. 100 (catalogue by Christopher Wright and Richard Lockett).
Publication History
Stephen Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, Boston and London, 1975, p. 54, no. 26, ill.
Alan Chong, "Aelbert Cuyp and the Meaning of Landscape", PhD. dissertation, New York University, 1992, p. 304, no. 56
Ownership History
Dowdeswell Gallery, London. Mrs. Fleischmann, by 1911 (lent by her to London, 1911).
Noel Ashcroft, Birmingham, by 1915 (lent by him to Birmingham, 1915); by descent to his widow (lent by her to Birmingham 1950); on loan to Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1968 to 1992; sold, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1992, no. 16, to Galerie Edel, Cologne and London; Galerie Edel, Cologne and London. Private Collection, Germany; sold through agency of Edel to Haboldt & Co., Paris and New York, by 2003; sold to the Art Institute, 2003.

