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AELBERT CUYP (DORDRECHT 1620-DORDECHT 1691)

Cows in a Pasture beside a River before the Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg

c.1640-9

RCIN 405351

Cuyp often employed an unnaturally low viewpoint which forces every form to be silhouetted against the sky, creating a detached effect. In this imaginative view, cows dominate the foreground, with shadowy ruins in the far distance. Acquired by George IV in 1814 No. 38

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