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River Landscape with Riders
Also titled Rivierlandschap met ruiters
Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht, 1620–1691)
c. 1653 - 1657
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 10 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the State of the Netherlands, the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This is a panoramic, sun-drenched river landscape – somewhat hazy in the distance – with sketchily drawn clouds. Two Dutch officers halt at the river, and water their horses next to a herder and his resting cattle. This idyllic scene does not unfold in Italy, but along the Waal between Nijmegen and Cleves, where Cuyp made landscape drawings that he took back to his workshop in Dordrecht.
