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Aelbert Cuyp (artist) Dutch, 1620 - 1691 The Maas at Dordrecht, c. 1650 oil on canvas Overall: 114.9 x 170.2 cm (45 1/4 x 67 in.) framed: 151.1 x 205.1 x 15.2 cm (59 1/2 x 80 3/4 x 6 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1940.2.1 On View |
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Provenance
Johan van der Linden van Slingeland [1701-1782], Dordrecht, by 1752.[1] (sale, Dordrecht, 22 August 1785, no. 70); "Rens" or "Delfos."[2] (Alexis Delahante, London, c. 1804 to 1814); Abraham Hume, Bart. [1749-1838], Wormley, Hertfordshire;[3] by inheritance to his grandson, John Hume Cust, Viscount Alford, M. P. [1812-1851], Ashridge Park, Hertfordshire; by inheritance to his son, John William Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow [1842-1867], Ashridge Park; by inheritance to his brother, Adelbert Wellington, 3rd Earl Brownlow, P. C., G. C. V. O. [1844-1921], Ashridge Park and London; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods London, 4 May 1923, no. 75); (Duveen Brothers, New York and London); by exchange 1940 to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1940 to NGA.
[1] Gerard Hoet, Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderijen..., 2 vols., The Hague, 1752, 2: 490. Van Slingeland's inventory describes two paintings as: "Two pieces, being the view of the City of Dordrecht to the Huys Merwede with many yachts and ships, being a rendezvous there [of] Prince Maurits of Orange in a 'Chaloup' with several other Princes of the city brought over to the yacht along which 'Chaloup' is another in which Oldenbarnevelt stands to see Prince Maurits, from life, by Aelbert Cuyp. each h. 43 d. w. 64 1/2 d." ["Twee stukken, zynde het Gezigt van de Stad Dordrecht tot het huys Merwerde met veele Jachten en Scheepen, zynde een Rendevous daar Prins Maurits van Orange in een Chaloup met eenige andere Prince van de Stad na het jagt wert gevoert tegens over welke Chaloup een andere is waarinne Oldenbarnevelt overend staande op Prince Maurits siet, na het Leven, door Albert Kuyp. ieder h. 43 d. br. 64 en een half d."] The description and dimensions seem to identify these paintings as Cuyp's View on the Maas near Dordrecht at Waddesdon Manor and The Maas at Dordrecht. As Oldenbarnevelt was executed in 1619 and Prince Maurits had died in 1625, these identifications were clearly fanciful.
[2] Margin note in NGA copy of sale catalogue gives buyer as Delfos (who also bought several other paintings in the sale), but a note in a copy at the British Library gives the buyer as "Rens." Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century..., 8 vols., trans. from the German edition, London, 1907-1927, 2: 17-18, no. 36, says lot 70, which he mistakenly believed to be the Waddesdon Manor painting (Reiss 1975, 145, no. 106), was sold to "Reus," and although the note in the copy of the catalogue in the RKD could be read as either "Reus" or "Rens," the one in the British Library is not ambiguous. Hofstede de Groot also does not note that "Rens." is an abbreviated form of a longer name, as seems clear from the quotation marks that we see after the name in the NGA and British Library copies.
[3] William Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, 2 vols., London, 1824, 192.
Associated Names
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Cust, Viscount Alford, John Hume
- Delahante, Alexis
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Hume, Bt., Abraham
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
- Sale, Dordrecht
- Spencer, 2nd Earl Brownlow, John William
- van Slingeland, Johan van der Linden
- Wellington, 3rd Earl Brownlow, Adelbert
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