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Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dr. Alan Chong for confirming the attribution to Aelbert Cuyp on the basis of photographs, and for his assistance in the preparation of this catalogue entry. Dr. Chong will include the painting in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the artist.
This is a significant new addition to the oeuvre of Aelbert Cuyp, related in motif and composition to a painting sold in these Rooms on 5 July 2019, lot 144; however it differs in style as it is somewhat later in date, from around 1644. Cuyp is not known to have left the Netherlands, and obviously did not encounter such dramatic scenery in his native country. Natural rock arches occur in the paintings of the Italianates like Cornelis van Poelenburgh and Claude Lorrain. However, Claude's Hagar and Ishmael in the desert (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no. 598) was painted much later, in 1668. Van Poelenburgh may thus have been the more immediate source for Cuyp's composition.
This is a significant new addition to the oeuvre of Aelbert Cuyp, related in motif and composition to a painting sold in these Rooms on 5 July 2019, lot 144; however it differs in style as it is somewhat later in date, from around 1644. Cuyp is not known to have left the Netherlands, and obviously did not encounter such dramatic scenery in his native country. Natural rock arches occur in the paintings of the Italianates like Cornelis van Poelenburgh and Claude Lorrain. However, Claude's Hagar and Ishmael in the desert (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. no. 598) was painted much later, in 1668. Van Poelenburgh may thus have been the more immediate source for Cuyp's composition.