View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves

Aelbert Cuyp Dutch

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Belonging to a group of broad panoramas from the early 1640s, all with a vertical fold in the middle, this drawing must have been made during a trip to the eastern Netherlands, near the German border. At right is the town of Calcar, and behind it is the Monterberg, a favorite destination for outings. Cuyp, one of the most outstanding Dutch landscapists of his time, set the view of the town and the surrounding flat landscape against a vigorously drawn foreground, a feature of many of his painted compositions. The artist included the panorama in one of his paintings.

View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves, Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht), 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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View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves, Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht), Black chalk and gray wash and graphite, watercolored in green and ochre yellow, partly brushed with gum arabic; framing lines in black ink
View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves, Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht), Black chalk and gray wash and graphite, watercolored in green and ochre yellow, partly brushed with gum arabic; framing lines in black ink
View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves, Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, Dordrecht 1620–1691 Dordrecht), 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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