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Follower of Aelbert Cuyp
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- Young lady in a straw hat holding a cockerel and a basket of eggs
- oil on oak panel
Provenance
Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865);
By whose executors sold, London, Christie's, 23 March 1912, lot 131, for £33.12, to Parsons (with its companion);
With Kunsthandel Schreuder, Rotterdam;
Anonymous sale, The Hague, Van Marle & Bignell, 19 April 1943, lot 16;
H. Lüdcke, Munich, before 1969 (according to Walther Bernt expertise).
By whose executors sold, London, Christie's, 23 March 1912, lot 131, for £33.12, to Parsons (with its companion);
With Kunsthandel Schreuder, Rotterdam;
Anonymous sale, The Hague, Van Marle & Bignell, 19 April 1943, lot 16;
H. Lüdcke, Munich, before 1969 (according to Walther Bernt expertise).
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters..., vol. II, London 1909, pp. 21-22, cat. no. 48 (as Aelbert Cuyp).
Catalogue Note
This lot is accompanied by copies of three expertise documents attributing this picture to Aelbert Cuyp in full. The first from Hofstede de Groot, hand-written and dated January 1924; the second from Dr. Walther Bernt, hand-written and dated 16 February 1969; and the third from Professor Werner Sumowski, type-written and undated.