id: 122340
accession number: 1942.637
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Travelers in Hilly Countryside, c. 1650. Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620–1691). Oil on wood; framed: 70.8 x 96.6 x 9 cm (27 7/8 x 38 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 48 x 74.5 cm (18 7/8 x 29 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.637
title: Travelers in Hilly Countryside
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creation date: c. 1650
creation date earliest: 1645
creation date latest: 1655
current location: 213 Dutch Painting
creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture: Netherlands
technique: oil on wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620–1691) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 70.8 x 96.6 x 9 cm (27 7/8 x 38 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 48 x 74.5 cm (18 7/8 x 29 5/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: "A cuyp"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection
opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00
Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).
title: Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art
opening date: 1948-06-09T04:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948).
title: Dutch Painting, The Golden Age
opening date: 1955-01-05T05:00:00
Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).
title: Art: The International Language
opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
title: Italy Through Dutch Eyes
opening date: 1964-04-15T05:00:00
Italy Through Dutch Eyes. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (April 15-May 24, 1964).
title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Visions of Landscape: East and West
opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00
Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
title: Aelbert Cuyp
opening date: 2001-10-07T00:00:00
Aelbert Cuyp. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (October 7, 2001-January 13, 2002); National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (February 13-May 12, 2002); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 7-September 1, 2002).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Figures Going to Market. British Institution, London, United Kingdom (1818).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Johan van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht (sale:Yver, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, no. 87);
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Sir Simon Clarke, London (sale: Christie's, London, May 14, 1802);
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George Hibbert, London (sale: Christie's, London, June 13,1829, no. 66);
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Richard Foster, London (sale: Christie's, November 14, 1835);
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Henry Bevan, London, 1842;
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Sir John Dean Paul (grandson of Henry Bevan); [A. Wertheimer, London];
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Alfred de Rothschild, London;
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[Galerie Charles Brunner, Paris, 1912, no. 7];
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John L. Severance, Cleveland, 1923, upon his death, held in trust by the estate
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Estate of John L. Severance, 1936, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters; In Which Is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Description of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at Which Such Pictures Have Been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in Which a Large Portion Are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by Whom They Have Been Engraved; to Which Is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the Above Schools. London, United Kingdom: Smith and Son, 1829.
page number: Reproduced: p. 294, no. 27
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Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. London, United Kingdom: Smith and Son, 1842.
page number: Reproduced: p. 667, no. 56; vol. 9
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Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Co, 1908.
page number: Reproduced: vol 2, p. 143, no. 465
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Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London: Graves, 1913.
page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 240
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936.
page number: Referenced: cat. no. 214, p. 87
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Stechow, Wolfgang. Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Providence, R.I.: Rhode Island Museum Press, 1938.
page number: Reproduced: p. 161-162, fig. 326
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Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
page number: Reproduced: p. [14], Plate IV, cat. no. 3; Mention: p. 21, cat. no. 3
url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n25
Francis, Henry S. "Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXIX, no. 9 (November, 1942) 132-136.
page number: Mentioned: p. 136
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Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College 1955.
page number: Reproduced: p. 230-231, vol 2
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 445
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n81
Gerson, Horst. "Italy Through Dutch Eyes." The Art Quarterly XXVII, no. 3 (1964): 342-353.
page number: Reproduced: p. 347, fig. 4
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University of Michigan. Italy Through Dutch Eyes; Dutch Seventeenth Century Landscape Artists in Italy. 1964.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 29, Reproduced: pl. XII
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 127
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n151
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 127
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n151
Mauritshuis (Hague, Netherlands). Vijfentwintig jaar aanwinsten Mauritshuis, 1945-1970. 1970.
page number: Reproduced: no. 47
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Steinborn, Bożena. Katalog zbiorów malarstwa niderlandzkiego. Wroclaw, Poland, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 34, no. 11
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Reiss, Stephen. Aelbert Cuyp. Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1975.
page number: Reproduced: p. 79, no. 46, colorplate VI
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 161
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n181
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 227-228; Reproduced: p. 228
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"Visions of Landscape East and West." Asia Vol. 4, No. 5 (January/February 1982): pp. 24-29.
page number: Reproduced: p. 25
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Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr.,ed..Aelbert Cuyp. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 141
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n29/mode/2up
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