Aelbert Cuyp
Dutch, 1620-1691
View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas
INV-2760
Aelbert Cuyp
Dutch, 1620-1691c. 1640
View of IJsselmonde Seen Across the New Maas
Aelbert Cuyp Dutch, 1620-1691 →watercolordrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1640
Medium
Brush and black and yellow ochre watercolors, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
14.5 × 19 cm (5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Worcester Sketch Fund
Even though he never ventured to Italy, Aelbert Cuyp distinguished himself as an artist who could evoke the golden light so often associated with southern Europe. Two of his works (View of IJsselmonde Seen across the New Maas (1967.383) and A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River (2003.169), created around the same time, indicate how he achieved this effect in two different media. In both cases, Cuyp employed a restrained but highly evocative palette in which he selectively contrasted the dark brown elements of the foreground and the expansive gold-cast skies seen beyond the water in the middle ground. Although in the painting he achieved this effect by covering his entire canvas with pigment, it is remarkable to consider the atmospheric effects he created in the drawing with the strategic and minimal use of color on paper.
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