Landscape with Maid Milking a Cow

ca. 1655

Aelbert Cuyp Dutch, 1620-1691

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Title Landscape with Maid Milking a Cow

Artwork Date ca. 1655

Artist Aelbert Cuyp

Life Dates 1620-1691

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Framed: 49 × 62 1/8 × 3 5/8 inches (124.5 × 157.8 × 9.2 cm) Unframed: 40 × 53 inches (101.6 × 134.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 89.33

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Signed Signed, at bottom near center: A Cuyp

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Provenance

1847, John LaTouche. James E. Scripps [1835-1906] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

“Royal Irish Art-Union. Exhibition of Pictures by Ancient and Celebrated Deceased Masters, For Relief of the Distress Prevailing in Ireland,” Art-Union Monthly Journal, no. 103 (January 1847): pp. 161-163, p. 163.

Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient and Modern Paintings, (First Year, 1854,) at The Royal Hibernian Academy, (Lower Abbey-Street). Dublin, 1854, p. 17, no. 60.

Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. DIA. Detroit, 1889, p. 41, no. 45 [as Albert Cuyp].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 24-25.

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1910, p. 33, no. 41.

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 47, no. 36, (repr.).

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 48, (repr.).

Holmes, J. "The Cuyps in America," Art in America, vol. 18, no. 4 (June 1930): p. 165.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 35, no. 48.

"Dutch Painting," Walters Art Gallery Report. Baltimore, 1951, p. 34.

Trumble, Alfred, ed. “The Scripps Old Masters,” The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1981): pp. 149-152, p. 150.

Alebert Cuyp. Exh. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, London, National Gallery, Rijksmuseum. Washington, 2001-2002, pp. 275, 291 [cited under cat. 107, A Milkmaid, chalk & wash drawing, J. Paul Getty Museum].

Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 62–63, no. 22 (ill.).

You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska, Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2016, p. 57; 60 (ill.); 127 cat. 63.

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