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Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620-1691)
Lot 168

Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620-1691)

A cockerel and three hens in a landscape: a fragment

Closed30 October 2014

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Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620-1691)
A cockerel and three hens in a landscape: a fragment
signed 'A: cuijp' (lower left)
oil on panel
6 1/8 x 12 3/8 in. (15.5 x 31.5 cm.), with additions of ½ in. (1 cm.) to each side

Sale Comte Pourtalès; London, 1826, as ‘Aelbert Cuyp’ (37 gns.).
J.R. West, Stratford-on-Avon, 1834, as ‘Aelbert Cuyp’.
with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1919, no. 37 as ‘Aelbert Cuyp’.
with Robert Langton Douglas, London, as ‘Aelbert Cuyp’.
Private collection, Berkshire.

Specialist note

The present picture was still in its original size in the 18th century, and it is in this format that it was known to Hofstede de Groote.