View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas

Prints and Drawings

c. 1640

Aelbert Cuyp
Dutch, 1620-1691

Even though he never ventured to Italy, Aelbert Cuyp distinguished himself as an artist who could evoke the golden light so often associated with southern Europe. Two of his works (View of IJsselmonde Seen across the New Maas (1967.383) and A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River (2003.169), created around the same time, indicate how he achieved this effect in two different media. In both cases, Cuyp employed a restrained but highly evocative palette in which he selectively contrasted the dark brown elements of the foreground and the expansive gold-cast skies seen beyond the water in the middle ground. Although in the painting he achieved this effect by covering his entire canvas with pigment, it is remarkable to consider the atmospheric effects he created in the drawing with the strategic and minimal use of color on paper.

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Artist: Aelbert Cuyp
Title: View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas
Place: Netherlands (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.: 1635–1645
Medium: Brush and black and yellow ochre watercolors, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "£*"; lower left, in graphite: "£106"; center, in blue pencil: "405" (in circle); lower right, in graphite: "tor—" (partially erased)
Dimensions: 14.5 × 19 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Worcester Sketch Fund
Reference Number: 1967.383
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“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums April–June 1967,” The Art Quarterly 30 (Winter 1967), p. 268 (ill p. 278).
Aelbert Cuyp en zijn familie: schilders te Dordrecht, exh. cat., Dordrechts Museum, 12 November 1977–8 January 1978, under cat. no. 45, p. 122, note 3.

Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Seventeenth Century Dutch Drawings from American Collections, Jan. 30–Mar. 13, 1977; also the Denver Art Museum, Apr. 1–May 15, 1977; and Fort Worth, Tex., the Kimbell Art Museum, June 1–July 15, 1977, cat. 57, pp. 59–60.
Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 78–79, cat. 30 (ill.); also the St. Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present, Sept. 12–Oct. 31, 1999, no cat.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age”, September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 247, 251 (ill.), 293, 330, cat. 95, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

William Mitchell (died 1908), Australia, London, and Eastbourne [blind stamp (Lugt 2638), verso, lower left]. William Pitcairn Knowles (1820–1894), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden [stamp (Lugt 2643), verso, lower center in purple]; sold, Frederik Muller and Company, Amsterdam, June 25, 1895. Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt (c. 1840–1914), Berlin [stamp (Lugt 2926), verso, lower left, in black]; sold, Prestel, Frankfurt-am-Main, Oct. 4–11, 1917, lot 153. Curt Otto (c. 1880–1929), Leipzig; sold, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Nov. 7, 1929, lot 46. Sold, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, Apr. 28, 1939, lot 371 to Mertens [correspondence with Dr. F. Carlo Schmid of C. G. Boerner, Mar. 2004 in curatorial file]. Sold by Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.

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