Landscape with Figures and Cattle

ArtistFollower of Aelbert Cuyp Dutch, 1620–1691

Datecirca 1660–1670

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions53 x 78 in. (134.6 x 198.1 cm)
Frame: 65 x 90 1/4 x 6 in. (165.1 x 229.2 x 15.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.36

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ProvenanceCreated Netherlands, ca. 1650–1665. William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (1817–1885), Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, before 1828; his son, William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley; [estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 25, 1892, no. 4] [1]; Charles John Wertheimer (1842–1911), London, 1892–1893; Thomas Humphry Ward (1844–1926), London, 1894–1896; J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), London and New York, May 1898; by descent to his son, J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. (1867–1943), London [2]; [consigned to M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1943]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] “Catalogue of the Highly Important Gallery of Pictures of the Late Rt. Hon. Earl of Dudley.”
[2] T. Ward and Roberts, Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (London, 1907).
Published ReferencesJohn Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, Vol. 5 (London: Smith and Son, 1834), 308-9.

G[eorge] F[riedrich] Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. 2 (London, 1838), 398.

G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1854), 237.

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2 (London: MacMillan and Co. Ltd., 1909), cat. no. 437.

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909), cat. no. 12.

B. P. Stephenson, "Great Dutch Artists," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4, no. 10 (October, 1909), 167, 171.

Collection of J.P. Morgan (exhibition catalogue) (New York: M. Knoedler and Company, 1943), cat. no. 17.

Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century (exhibition catalogue) (New York: M. Knoedler and Company, 1945), cat. no. 1.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 43, illus. (b-w).

The Pierpont Morgan Treasures (exhibition catalogue) (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1960), cat. no. 95.

T[homas] Humphrey Ward, and W. Roberts, Pictures in the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (London, 1967).

S[tephen] Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975), 189.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 107.

Alan Chong, Aelbert Cuyp and the Meanings of Landscape, PhD diss., New York University, 1992, 504, cat. no. 4, version A.

Dennis P. Weller, "Old Masters in the New World: The Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 1909 and its Legacy," in Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in American, 1609-2009, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Benjamin Schmidt, and Annette Stott, eds. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008), mentioned 259.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 11, illus. (color) 49.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, British Institution, 1828, cat. no. 145,

London, The Royal Academy, "Exhibition of Works by Old Masters," 1871, cat. no. 420; 1884, cat. no. 68; 1903, cat. no. 85.

New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Hudson-Fulton Celebration," September-November, 1909, cat. no. 12.

New York, NY, Knoedler and Company, "Collection of J.P. Morgan," November 23-December 11, 1943, cat. no. 17.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, "Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen," 1944, cat. no.16.

New York, NY, M. Knoedler and Company, "Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century," February 5-24, 1945, cat. no. 1.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "Dutch Paintings," 1945.

Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, "The Pierpont Morgan Treasures," November 10-December 18, 1960, cat. no. 95.

Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Pierpont Morgan Treasures," 1961, cat. no. 40.

Durham, NC, Duke University Museum of Art, "Ten Dutch and Flemish Paintings," October 1995-May 1996.
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