Landscape with Cattle 1600 • 10 mil (0

• 10 mil (0

and a tendency to render details as picturesque accents

who slumps over his horse while the troops behind him flee the ambush

• Hanging hardware included

This study of a cow may be unique in the artist’s oeuvre

Landscape with Cattle 1600 • 10 mil (0This impressive panel bears the signature of Aelbert Cuyp, and until recently was never doubted as his work. Cuyp's paintings were widely appreciated in the eighteenth century, and attracted a number of imitators. The most capable of them, Jacob van Strij, is very probably the author of this picture. Among the qualities that indicate an eighteenth century painter are the impasto treatment of the clouds, the simplified highlights, the saturated greens