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View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves

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Date

c.1640-1642

Artist

Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/370456

Description

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. Medium: black chalk and gray wash and graphite, watercolored in green and ochre yellow, partly brushed with gum arabic; framing lines in black ink.

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Kalkar, Rhine, Germany

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