
Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691)Dutch Golden Age · 1640s–1660sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
Dutch Golden Age 1620–1691
Aelbert Cuyp
Golden evening over river and meadow.
Gone 335 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: River Light
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






