A River Landscape with a Windmill, gentlefolk in a rowing boat and on a jetty in the foreground

細節

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691)
A River Landscape with a Windmill, gentlefolk in a rowing boat and on a jetty in the foreground
signed 'A. Cuyp' (lower right)
oil on panel
16 5/8 x 25in. (42.2 x 63.6cm.)

來源

Bishop John Godd, Leeds, 1933.
with Duits, London and Amsterdam.
with Douwes, Amsterdam.
with Piet de Boer, Amsterdam, 1954.
J. van Duijvendijk, Scheveningen, 1955.
A. Laan, Bloemendael.
with Piet de Boer, 1968.

出版

S. Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, London, 1975, p. 49, no. 21, illustrated.
Catalogue of the exhibition, Aelbert Cuyp en zijn familie, schilders te Dordrecht, Dordrecht, 1977-8, p. 122.

拍品專文

Dated by Reiss, loc. cit., c. 1642, this is an early work painted in the style of Jan van Goyen. The composition derives from two drawings: a sketch in the D.G. van Beuningen Collection, Vierhouten (illustrated in Reiss, loc. cit..) shows the windmill and the edge of the pier in the immediate foreground, and a drawing in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv. 1967:90, illustrated in the Dordrecht exhibition catalogue, op. cit., no. 45) in which the jetty and the rowing boat are also similar.

A photograph of the painting taken before 1955 (Reiss, loc. cit.) shows a ferryman standing in the stern of the boat; this has since been removed by cleaning.

We are grateful to Dr. Alan Chong for providing us with additional information; he intends to publish the picture in his forthcoming monograph on the artist.