A prancing grey stallion in a landscape, with stallions fighting beyond

Details

English School, 17th century
A prancing grey stallion in a landscape, with stallions fighting beyond
with signature 'A. Cuyp' (lower right)
oil on canvas
70 1/8 x 89 7/8 in. (178.2 x 228.3 cm.)

Provenance

A Gentleman, on the Continent; Christie's, London, 7 June 1819, lot 103, as 'Cuyp', 20 gns. to the following,
William Woodburn (1778-1860), London.
Héris collection, Brussels, by 1834.
Arnold Trowell; (†) Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1967, lot 155, as 'A. Cuyp'.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 18 November 1983, lot 7, as 'English School, 17th century'.

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, V, London, 1834, p. 346, no. 217, as 'Albert Cuyp'.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, II, London, 1909, p. 173, no. 573, as 'Albert Cuyp'.
S. Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, London, 1975, pp. 202 and 209, as 'Cuyp'.

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Lot Essay

While the author of this commanding stallion remains elusive, it is now widely accepted to be by the same unidentified seventeenth-century English artist that executed the twelve grand-scale pictures of horses painted for the hall at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. The Welbeck series, from which one canvas was sold in these Rooms (20 November 1981, lot 27), was traditionally attributed to Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeck (1596-1675), whose drawings of horses were engraved for La Méthode Nouvelle et Invention Extraordinaire de Dresser les Chevaux, written by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and published in Antwerp in 1658.

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