Lot 549
  • 549

Manner of Aelbert Cuyp

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Manner of Aelbert Cuyp
  • A Dairy Maid with Six Cows in a Landscape
  • bears signature A cuyp (lower right)
  • oil on panel
  • 17 1/2 by 21 1/2 in.; 44.5 by 54.7 cm.

Provenance

Peeter Oets collection, Amsterdam, until sold in 1791;
Earl of Cork and Orrerry and Other Collections Sale, Christie, Manson and Watson, London, 25 November 1905, lot 141; 
Mr. Watson Bradley Dickerman, by whom bequeathed to to his wife;
Mrs. Watson Bradley Dickerman, until 1956 when gifted to;
The Brooklyn Museum, inventory number 56.1.

Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by the Old Dutch Masters in Connection with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, September - November 1909, no. 10 (lent by Mr. W.B. Dickerman).

Literature

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalgoue Raisonné of the most Emminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909, vol II, p. 115, no. 387g (as Cuyp).
Exhibition of Paintings by the Old Dutch Masters in Connection with the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, exhibition catalogue, New York 1909, vol. I, p. 11, no. 10.
The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin, vol. XVII, no. 1 (Fall 1956), p. 26, reproduced on cover.
Art Quarterly, March 1956, p. 304 (as Cuyp);
A. Chong, Aelbert Cuyp, Ph.D. dissertation, 1992, cat. no. C41 (under rejected paintings).

Condition

The panel is cradled, flat and stable. There is a thin horizontal crack across center, light craquelure, and minor scattered indentations to upper left quadrant, otherwise in good condition. Under UV; inpainting along horizontal crack in center, along the edges, particularly upper right corner and scattered pinpoint retouches in the sky.
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