Sale 5903
London
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3 December 1997
Price realised
GBP 26,450
Estimate
Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691) A River Landscape with a Drover herding Cattle over a Bridge and Shepherds at Rest by ruined Buildings signed 'A.cüyp' (lower right) oil on panel 19½ x 29 3/8in. (49.5 x 74.6cm.)
Provenance
with P. de Boer (Nederland waterland, 1972, no. 75).
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Exhibited
Dordrechts Museum, Zee, Rivier-en Oevergezichten, 1964, no. 21.
Dr. Alan Chong has confirmed the attribution of this picture and will include it in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné on the paintings of Cuyp, as datable c. 1644.
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