A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River

c. 1643–c. 1645

Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1621–1691)

Aelbert Cuyp never traveled to Italy, yet he employed the golden light typical of southern Europe to dramatize his distinctly Dutch pastoral subjects. He enhanced views of the meandering rivers and flat terrain with cows and sheep, animals that abounded in the local countryside. In this relatively early painting, his use of a warm, monochrome color palette reflects the influence of his older contemporary, Jan van Goyen.

Status: On View, Gallery 213
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Aelbert Cuyp
Title: A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River
Place: Dordrecht (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1638–1650
Medium: Oil on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: A:cüyp
Dimensions: 40 × 55 cm (15 3/4 × 21 5/8 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 72.1 × 5.7 cm (22 1/2 × 28 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Fund
Reference Number: 2003.169
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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
“The Story of Art Retold: New Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Apollo (October 2008): 47 (color ill.).
Haboldt & Co.’s, Singular Vision: Haboldt & Co.’s Old Master Paintings and Drawings since 1983. Amsterdamn: Haboldt & Co., 2012. p. 265.

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).
Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, September 28, 2019-January 5, 2020.

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.

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