Orpheus playing for the animals, c. 1640
canvas, oil paint, 113 x 167 cm
- Current attribution
- Date
- c. 1640
- Title
- Orpheus playing for the animals
- Genre
- Subject keywords
- Iconclass
Orpheus playing the lyre: trees and rocks move, beasts and birds are enchanted
- Object
- Support/medium
- Shape/sizes
- 113 x 167 cm
- Signature/inscription
- A. cuyp
- Artistic relationship
- Landscape with cattle and figures
goat in reverse
- Landscape with cattle and figures
- Collection(s)
- Johnny Van Haeften (London)
until 1994 - Otto Naumann Ltd.
until 1998 - Museum of Fine Arts Boston
De Mol-van Otterloo collection
- Johnny Van Haeften (London)
- Exhibitions
- Aelbert Cuyp [Washington [DC], 2001], National Gallery of Art [Washington] , 2001-10-07 - 2002-01-13, p. 88-91, 186, no. 1 (A. Chong)
- Literature in RKDLibrary
- Chong 1992/1994, p. 318, under no. 71
smaller version of no. 71 - Bergvelt/Jonker 2016, p. 58, under DPG348 (Aelbert Cuyp; RKD, no. 225946)
- Bergvelt/Jonker 2021
- Chong 1992/1994, p. 318, under no. 71
- Other literature
- E. Haverkamp-Begemann, ‘no. 14. Aelbert Cuyp [...] Orpheus charming the animals’, in sale catalogue Naumann 1998, p. 72–78
- M. Jonker and E. Bergvelt, Catalogue of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Dutch, Flemish and German Schools, with addenda to the British School, published online as a RKD Study on 18 March 2021 [an enlarged version of Jonker & Bergvelt 2016], under DPG348 (Aelbert Cuyp; RKD, no. 225946), Related works, no. 5, fig. 11
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