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Follow the line of cows and sheep along the bank to the sailboat, then look across the water to the tower of Vianen.
In this early view, Aelbert Cuyp still paints in the warm, nearly single-color manner of the older Jan van Goyen, as the Art Institute of Chicago observes. A herdsman stands with his cattle and sheep on a rise above the river, and the town of Vianen lies low on the far bank under a heavy, glowing sky.
Oil on panel · 40 × 55 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Dutch Golden Age
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- Museum title
- A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River
- Artist
- Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1621–1691)
- Date
- c. 1643–c. 1645
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 40 × 55 cm (15 3/4 × 21 5/8 in.); Framed: 57.2 × 72.1 × 5.7 cm (22 1/2 × 28 3/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.