A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters: Nicholas Berghem, Paul Potter, Adrian pander Velde, Karel du Jardin, Albert Cuyp, John vander HeydenSmith and son, 1834 - Painters |
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Adrian Vander Velde ALBERT CUYP Amst Amsterdam animated appears artist bank bay horse beautiful Berghem boat Boisset bought Braamcamp British Gallery buildings canal cattle and figures centre Choiseul church clusters of trees colour Companion conversation dated dressed Duc de Choiseul Eglon Engraved Experts du Musée farther side figures and cattle foot fore-ground four cows four sheep front Gagny gentleman goat gray horse Hague hand herd herdsman hill Hillegom hilly Holland horseback jacket lady Landscape lofty Lord Francis Egerton Louvre Marquis of Bute master meadow middle distance Mountainous mounted mule Musée Français opposite side oxen painted painter passing Paul Potter picture preceding Prince red cow reposing river road rocks ruins scene seated seen shepherd sold spectator stands stream of water summer's summit three cows three sheep tower view exhibits view represents wearing white horse woman milking Worth
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Page 298 - Hilly Landscape," intersected by a winding river. On the right and front is a gentleman on a dappled-gray horse, represented with his back to the spectator ; he appears to be in conversation with a woman who stands by his side, and at the same time is pointing with his whip towards three sportsmen, who are seen in the second distance watering their steeds at a river. Two cows lying down, a flock of sheep, and three dogs, are distributed over the foreground, which is diversified with docks and other...
Page 309 - Of the very few pictures which Cuyp painted of this size and subject the one just described is, perhaps, the most agreeable to the eye and feelings ; as it possesses an agreeable warmth of tone, combined with the appearance of a genial atmosphere, free from that sultry and oppressive heat which sometimes predominate in bis pictures.
Page 282 - Dutch catalogues of the principal sales in Holland down to the year 1750, there is no example of any picture by Cuyp fetching a higher sum than 30 florins — something less than 31.
Page 304 - ... a flock of sheep. On the opposite side is a tree, and a group of cattle in an enclosure near it. The more distant land presents the appearance of a chalky soil, on which grow a few scanty blades of grass. Collection of Noel Desenfans, Esq., 1802 105 gs. 78. The Interior of a Stable, in which are a girl with a basket on her arm, and a youth with a crook on his shoulder : behind them are four sheep, and above are perched a cock and several hens. A milk pan, and other objects on the ground, complete...