Landscape with Cows and a Young Herdsman

Landscape with Cows and a Young Herdsman

SK-A-3754

Landschap met een herdersjongen bij twee koeien.

signature, lower left (false): ‘A. cùÿp’

• painter: manner of Aelbert Cuyp
• painter: Aelbert Cuyp (mentioned on object) [rejected attribution]

c. 1675 - c. 1725

oil on canvas

• support: height 102 cm x width 135.3 cm
• outer size: depth 8.5 cm (support incl. frame)

Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

purchase 1950-11

Public domain

…; ? anonymous sale [Provenant du Cabinet de Mr. Silvestre], Paris (Chariot and Paillet), 16 November 1778, no. 77 (‘[…] un Paysage sur le devant duquel est une Vache couchée & forte, comme demi-nature: plus-loin, un autre en raccourci; un jeune Garçon est assis sur un Plan elévé, & paroît les garder. Des lointaines & un Ciel touché avec goût, terminent la composition de ce beau morceau, qui est peint sur une toile. Hauteur 38 pouces, largeur 50 pouces [102.6 x 135 cm]’), 420 livres, to Jacques Lenglier;{Copy BNP; GPI, F-A-1457.}…; ? sale, Prince de Conti, Paris (N.F.J. Boileau), 15 March 1779 _sqq._, no. 163 (‘Un Paysage, dans lequel on voit deux Boeufs, dont un couché & l’autre debout; & près d’eux, un jeune Pâtre & quelques arbres. La gauche offre de beaux lointains, dans lesquels on apperçoit la Tour d’un Château ruiné. […] Hauteur 36 pouces, largeur 48 pouces [97.2 x 129.6 cm] T[oile]’), 350 livres, to the dealer Louis-François-Jacques Boileau;{Copy BNP; GPI, F-A-1486.}…;{The painting was probably in England in the 19th century, given the embossed stamp of British picture liner Francis Leedham (1794-1870) on the stretcher.} collection Major Sir Bertram Hardy, Bart, Dunstal Hall, Burton upon Trent;{[A. van Schendel], _Catalogue of Paintings Rijksmuseum Amsterdam_, coll. cat. 1960, p. 80.}…; from A.J. Tooth, £SLX,{Code for the price, possibly £750: ‘S’ meaning 7 and ‘LX’ 50.} to the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1950;{GRI, acc. no. 81780591, Colnaghi records 1894-1959, picture stock books, card no. 23, inv. no. 2638.} from whom, £2,750, to the museum, as a gift from the Fotocommissie, November 1950

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Yvette; Laar, Michel van de Bruijnen, Geschreven, gestempeld of geplakt : verscholen informatie op de keerzijde van schilderijen, uit: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 54, 2006, 4, pagina 429-449 - p. 442, afb. 21

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