Lot Essay
The present lot may be compared to the artist's less finished watercolour of the same subject, dated 1834, but lacking the figures, in the collection of the Municipal archives, Dordrecht (J.M. de Groot, J.G. van Gelder, Aelbert Cuyp en zijn familie, schilders te Dordrecht, Dordrecht, 1977-8, illustrated p. 18).
The second house from the left was bought by Aelbert Cuyp and his wife Cornelia Boschman in 1663. This may have been the reason for the Dordrecht artist Rutten to draw this view and one of another house previously owned by Cuyp (De Groot, Van Gelder, op. cit., illustrated p. 17). The interest in the work and life of Cuyp was stimulated in the 18th and 19th Century by the 'Teekengenootschap Pictura' founded in 1774 by Abraham and Jacob van Strij, followers of Cuyp. Rutten's picture of the same subject, including most of the figures shown in the present lot, was sold as an unidentified view, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 20 April 1993, lot 117
The second house from the left was bought by Aelbert Cuyp and his wife Cornelia Boschman in 1663. This may have been the reason for the Dordrecht artist Rutten to draw this view and one of another house previously owned by Cuyp (De Groot, Van Gelder, op. cit., illustrated p. 17). The interest in the work and life of Cuyp was stimulated in the 18th and 19th Century by the 'Teekengenootschap Pictura' founded in 1774 by Abraham and Jacob van Strij, followers of Cuyp. Rutten's picture of the same subject, including most of the figures shown in the present lot, was sold as an unidentified view, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 20 April 1993, lot 117