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vii AELBERT CUYP 207 clouds a light ochre-yellow, and produces a fine effect of light, which is emphasised by vivid luminous passages on the grass and the bushes. By way of contrast there are dark bushes in the immediate foreground. The trees cast deep but transparent shadows to the right, and the left half of the picture, in the middle distance and background, is enveloped in a delicate warm greenish twilight. The picture is loosely painted and exceptionally poetic in feeling. [Compare 702.] Signed in the left-hand bottom corner, A. cuyp j canvas, 21 inches by 27^ inches. In the collection of Baron d'Aubigny, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger, 1900. In the possession of the London dealers Forbes and Paterson, in the spring of 1902. In the collection of A. Bredius ; exhibited on loan in the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, 1907 catalogue, No. 667. 691. LANDSCAPE WITH SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS. On a knoll to the left are two shepherds ; one sits with his back to the spectator, the other stands in profile to the left. In the foreground are sheep and goats. To the right is a view over a flat landscape with a church in the middle distance. Blue sky with clouds. This is an exceptionally good picture of the early period ; it is straw-yellow in tone. Signed, "A. Cuyp fecit" ; panel, 15 inches by 27 inches. Exhibited for a time on loan at the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1903, No. 89, and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1904, No. 390. In the collection of H. J. Pfungst, London. In the collection of J. J. van Alen, London, from 1903. 692. Cows by a River. On a little tongue of land in the centre foreground are three cows ; one is lying down with its head to the left ; another stands behind to the right, with its head turned to the left ; the third turns towards the river. On the left a man sits in profile to the left j a boy and another man with his back to the spectator are conversing. On the river to the extreme right is a boat with two figures. Farther away are other boats. The river and the opposite bank^ overgrown with bushes, fill the middle distance and background. [Possibly identical with 7H-] In the collection of H. J. Pfungst, London. In the collection of J. J. van Alen, London. 693. River Landscape with Sheep and Shepherds. On a hillock to the right are a man and woman, with sheep. To the left is a river with sailing- boats. Blue sky with clouds. The attribution to Cuyp is uncertain. If the picture is genuine, it must be an early work, but the drawing of the figures and sheep raises doubts. Still it is certainly an old and not a bad picture. Signed, A. Cuyp ; canvas, 15^ inches by 19 inches.