Currently not on view
View of the Town and Castle of Hardinxveld
Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch, 1620–1691
x1984-332
Unlike Rembrandt’s Landscape with Thatched Cottage, an amalgam of locations around Amsterdam, Cuyp’s drawing depicts a specific place: the small town of Har dinxveld, located on the river Merwede not far from Cuyp’s hometown of Dordrecht. Drawing from life was an important part of Cuyp’s process. He used rapid sketches, such as this one, as studies for oil paintings or for finished, autonomous drawings. Cuyp’s popularity as a painter rested in part on his ability to convey a sense of serenity and stability through landscape.
Information
Title
View of the Town and Castle of Hardinxveld
Maker
Medium
Black chalk and graphite with touches of grey wash and pen and brown ink
Dimensions
19.2 x 25.1 cm (7 9/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of The Port Royal Foundation, Inc., through Sally Sample Aall
Object Number
x1984-332
Place Depicted
Europe, Netherlands, Hardinxveld
Inscription
in graphite, on verso lower center: hardingh Veld door A Kuip
Culture
Type
Materials
W. A. Beelaerts van Blokland (his mark: W.A.B.V.B. [NOT IN Lugt] and number C. 56 in ink on old mount, lower left); F.W.A. Knight, his sale, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 29 October 1979, lot 33 (See reference Bib. 4765); purchased by O. Banks for the Museum at sale, Sotheby, Amsterdam, 26 November 1984, lot 130 (illustrated in catalogue)
- Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V. 1979. Fine Dutch drawings: a collection formed by F. W. A. Knight, Esq. = Belangrijke Nederlandse tekeningen: de collectie van Dhr. F. W. A. Knight, sale code 301. 29 October 1979, Amsterdam.
- Dutch and Flemish drawings, (Amsterdam?: Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V., 1984?)., lot. 130 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., p. 40
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)
