Lot Essay
Cuyp used the study at the left for his signed picture A Horse and Sheep with a Herdsman and a Horseman in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, inv. no. 2554 (see fig. 1).
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691)
Studies of a Horse and a subsidiary Study of a Dog
Details
Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691)
Studies of a Horse and a subsidiary Study of a Dog
black chalk, grey ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark foolscap (?), framed
127 x 177 mm.
Studies of a Horse and a subsidiary Study of a Dog
black chalk, grey ink framing lines, fragmentary watermark foolscap (?), framed
127 x 177 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by the father of the present owner before 1960.
Literature
J. Lauts, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Neuerwerbungen Alter Meister, 1966-1972, Karlsruhe, 1973, p. 89.
Exhibited
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Aelbert Cuyp en zijn familie, schilders te Dordrecht, 1977-8, pp. 164-5, no. 66, illustrated.