Aelbert Cuyp

1620–1691 · Baroque

Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp or Cuijp was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father, Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light. He was born and died in Dordrecht.

38 paintings

• A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River (c. 1643–c. 1645)
• Travelers in Hilly Countryside (c. 1650)
• Sunny Dune Landscape with a Well (1650)
• Road through the dunes (1641)
• Cows in a River, at Sunset (1650)
• The Departure for the Horse Ride (1665)
• Landscape with three Horsemen (1665)
• Equestrian Portrait of Pieter de Roovere (1650)
• Landscape with the Ruins of Rijnsburg Abbey, near Leiden (1640)
• Portrait of a Girl with Peaches (1650)
• Peasants and Cattle by the River Merwede (1659)
• Cattle by a River (1650)
• Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (ca. 1650)
• Piping Shepherds (ca. 1643–44)
• Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman (ca. 1652–53)
• Young Herdsmen with Cows (ca. 1655–60)
• Children and a Cow (1635–39)
• Orpheus Charming the Animals (1640)
• River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants (1659)
• A Landscape with Horseman, Herders and Cattle (1655)
• The Large Dort (1650)
• A Pier Overlooking Dordrecht (early 1640s)
• Landscape with Herdsmen (mid 1650s)
• Lady and Gentleman on Horseback (c. 1655, reworked 1660/1665)
• Horsemen and Herdsmen with Cattle (1655/1660)
• The Maas at Dordrecht (c. 1650)
• Herdsmen Tending Cattle (1655/1660)
• River Landscape with Cows (1645/1650)
• Fishing Boats on the Maas (1645)
• Interior of the Groote Kerk, Dordrecht (1660)
• Mountainous landscape with the ruins of a castle (1650)
• Landscape with herdsman and cattle (1650)
• A Chief Merchant of the VOC with his Wife and an Enslaved Servant (1650)
• Landscape with cows and young herdsman (1650)
• River landscape with cows (1650)
• River Landscape with Riders (1653)
• Portrait of a Young Man (1651)
• Landskab med vindmøller (1638-1642)