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Lot 45

Circle of Aelbert Cuyp
(Dordrecht 1620-1691)
A drover and milkmaid standing beside cattle, a view to a town in the distance

3 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Circle of Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620-1691)

A drover and milkmaid standing beside cattle, a view to a town in the distance
bears signature 'A. cuÿp' (lower right)
oil on panel
58.6 x 73.6cm (23 1/16 x 29in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Collection of the Duke of Leinster, Carton, Kildare, perhaps by 1814 and thence by descent until offered
Sale, Christie's London, 14 May 1926, lot 97 (£1890 to Frank Partridge)
The Collection of Dr C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken, circa 1936, and thence by descent to
Dr N. J. van Aalst by whom offered
Sale, Christie's London, 1 April 1960, lot 17 (sold £3,600 to Duits)
The Collection of Mrs E. Edgar, July 1960

Exhibited
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Masterpieces of art from foreign collections, no. 9
New York, New York World's Fair, 1939-1940, Masterpieces of Art, cat. no. 71
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Seven Centuries of Painting. A loan exhibition of old and modern masters, December 1939 - January 1940, no. Y53
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art (no. 7); Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum; Newark, Newark Museum (no. 6); Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art (no. 6); Springfield Museum of Fine Art (no. 6); Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum (no.10); Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art (no. 14), Masterpieces of art from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs, 1940-41

Literature
Notes on the pictures, plate, antiquities, etc., at Carton... 1871, p. 21 or 24
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1918, vol. II, p. 65, no. 189
J. W. von Moltke, Dutch and Flemish old masters in the collection of Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Huis-te-Hoevelaken, Holland, Verona, 1939, p. 96, ill., pl. XXII

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