Aelbert Cuyp

While many Dutch painters focused on depicting the local countryside, others were inspired by the hilly topography, golden sunlight, and picturesque monuments of Italy. Although Aelbert Cuyp never visited Italy, this serene and beautifully preserved panel demonstrates his skill in evoking the idyllic qualities of a distant land.

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition

Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).

Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection

Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948).

Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age

Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

Art: The International Language

Italy Through Dutch Eyes. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 15-May 24, 1964).

Italy Through Dutch Eyes

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).

Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Visions of Landscape: East and West

Aelbert Cuyp. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 7, 2001-January 13, 2002); National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (February 13-May 12, 2002); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 7-September 1, 2002).

Figures Going to Market. British Institution, London, United Kingdom (1818).

A horizontally oriented oil painting on wood depicts a landscape under a vast, cloud-filled sky. In the middle ground, a light-skinned man in a red coat leads two pack animals toward the right, followed by a light-skinned woman riding one and two other men. Dark boulders anchor the shadowed foreground. Beyond them, rolling hills, water, and distant buildings recede under pale sunlight beneath a sky of drifting gray and white clouds.

Johan van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht (sale:Yver, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, no. 87);

Sir Simon Clarke, London (sale: Christie's, London, May 14, 1802);

George Hibbert, London (sale: Christie's, London, June 13,1829, no. 66);

Richard Foster, London (sale: Christie's, November 14, 1835);

Sir John Dean Paul (grandson of Henry Bevan); [A. Wertheimer, London];

[Galerie Charles Brunner, Paris, 1912, no. 7];

John L. Severance, Cleveland, 1923, upon his death, held in trust by the estate

Estate of John L. Severance, 1936, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.

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