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View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves

ca. 1640–42
Not on view
Belonging to a group of broad panoramas from the early 1640s, all with a fold in the middle, Cuyp must have made this drawing during a trip to the eastern Netherlands, near the German border. The town of Calcar can be seen at the right; behind it lies the Monterberg, a favorite destination for outings. Cuyp, one of the outstanding Dutch landscapists of the seventeenth century, set the view of Calcar and the surrounding flat landscape against a vigorously drawn foreground, a feature of many of his painted compositions. The distant view in the drawing was used by him for a painting now at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The drawing belongs to a group of more than twenty sheets and eight paintings from the collection of Frits Markus, a Dutchman who lived in New York, which was bequeathed to the museum by his wife Rita.

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Object Information
  • Title: View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves
  • Artist: Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht)
  • Date: ca. 1640–42
  • Medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash and graphite, watercolored in green and ochre yellow, partly brushed with gum arabic; framing lines in pen and black ink
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (19.1 x 49.5 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.330.4
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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