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A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River
Aelbert Cuyp · c. 1643–c. 1645
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dowdeswell Gallery, London. Mrs. Fleischmann, by 1911 (lent by her to London, 1911). Noel Ashcroft, Birmingham, by 1915 (lent by him to Birmingham, 1915); by descent to his widow (lent by her to Birmingham 1950); on loan to Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1968 to 1992; sold, Sotheby's, London, December 9, 1992, no. 16, to Galerie Edel, Cologne and London; Galerie Edel, Cologne and London. Private Collection, Germany; sold through agency of Edel to Haboldt & Co., Paris and New York, by 2003; sold to the Art Institute, 2003.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Old Masters in Aid of the National Art-Collections Fund, 1911, cat. 63, ill. pl. 63.
- London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, A Loan Exhibition of a Well-known Private Collection, 1915, cat. 27.
- Birmingham, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Some Dutch Cabinet Pictures of the Seventeenth-Century, Aug. 6–Oct. 8, 1950, cat. 10.
- London, Royal Academy of Arts, A Fanfare for Europe, 1953, no cat. no.
- London, National Gallery, Aelbert Cuyp in British Collections, Jan. 3–Feb. 11, 1973, cat. 4.
- Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Images of a Golden Age in British Collections, 1989–90, cat. 100.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age, September 28, 2019-January 5, 2020.
Literature
Published references
- Stephen Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, Boston and London, 1975, p. 54, no. 26, ill.
- Alan Chong, "Aelbert Cuyp and the Meaning of Landscape", PhD. dissertation, New York University, 1992, p. 304, no. 56
- "The Story of Art Retold: New Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Apollo (October 2008): 47 (color ill.).
- Haboldt & Co.'s, Singular Vision: Haboldt & Co.'s Old Master Paintings and Drawings since 1983. Amsterdamn: Haboldt & Co., 2012. p. 265.
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