Live Auction 7783Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Day Sale
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Lot 106 The Property of a Family Trust (lots 101-108)

Abraham Pietersz. van Calraet (Dordrecht 1642-1722)

A landscape with three horses being held by a young boy

Closed9 December 2009

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GBP 18,125

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Abraham Pietersz. van Calraet (Dordrecht 1642-1722)
A landscape with three horses being held by a young boy
with signature 'A.Cuyp' (lower left)
oil on panel
14¼ x 20 in. (35.8 x 50.8 cm.)
with an unidentified collector's seal on the reverse of the panel

M. Vrancken, Lokeren, 1834, lot 7 (2850 Franks to Chaplin).
James Stewart; Christie's, London, 20 April 1839, lot 63 (95 gns. to Chaplin).
Edmund Higginson, Saltmarshe Castle, Shropshire; Christie's, London, 4 June 1846, lot 152 (61 gns. to Rutley).
John Rushout, 2nd Lord Northwick (1770-1859), Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham; (+) Phillips, London, 26 July 1859, lot 235 (145 gns.).
Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C., Northwick Park; (+) Christie's, London, 25 February 1966, lot 92, as 'Albert Cuyp' (1800 gns. to the present owner).

Specialist note

A variant of this composition, also traditionally given to Cuyp and now attributed to van Calraet, is in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (inv. no. 950).