Landscape with Cattle 1600 • 10 mil (0

• 10 mil (0

at his death in December 1872

The most capable of them

This study of a cow may be unique in the artist’s oeuvre

and until recently was never doubted as his work

Landscape with Cattle 1600 • 10 mil (0This impressive panel bears the signature of Aelbert Cuyp, and until recently was never doubted as his work. Cuyp's paintings were widely appreciated in the eighteenth century, and attracted a number of imitators. The most capable of them, Jacob van Strij, is very probably the author of this picture. Among the qualities that indicate an eighteenth century painter are the impasto treatment of the clouds, the simplified highlights, the saturated greens