# River Landscape with Riders

- By: Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht, 1620–1691)
- Date: c. 1653 - 1657
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: outer size: depth 10 cm (support incl. frame)
- 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
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4118--138c129165a232744e15199829b37ba1)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/uMHxo/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.