A River Landscape with a Horseman on a Road

Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 – Dordrecht 1691). Oil painting on panel, A River Landscape with a Horseman on a Road by Aelbert Cuyp (Dordrecht 1620 – Dordrecht 1691), signed, bottom left: A cuÿp. On a road in the foreground a horesman in red jacket halts to converse wuith a herdsman, whose flock of sheep and cows lie along the verge; across a stretch of water is a ruined castle beside a ruin; hill rise at the right and on the left is an extensive plain. The scene is a summer evening. It has in the past been described as a view near Nymwegen; the ruined castle bears some resmeblence to that of Ubbergen, in the vicinity of Nymwegen, but the scene is likely to be imaginative. Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire