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Landscape with cattle
(c. 1639-1649)
- Medium
- oil on wood panel
- Measurements
- 65.0 × 90.8 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.c.r.: A. cuÿp
- Accession Number
- 4664-3
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1932
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Aelbert Cuyp is now considered one of the leading landscape artists of the Golden Age of Dutch painting. The animals in his landscapes always appear healthy and robust. In their idyllic settings, they attest to a buoyant Dutch economy and to the sense of prosperity prevalent in the Netherlands in the early seventeenth century. In particular, the dairy industry was a subject of great pride, and the depiction of cattle was a special genre in Dutch painting.
- Subjects (general)
- Agriculture Animals Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- cattle domestic sheep (species) farmers (people in agriculture) goat (genus) men (male humans) rural areas trees
