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Dimensions: measurements note 43 by 53 cm.; 17 by 20 7/8 in.
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Provenance: Eugène Heimgartner, Geneva, by 1925
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Literature: S. Reiss, Aelbert Cuyp, London 1975, p. 28, no. 3, reproduced.
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Notes: This is one of Aelbert Cuyp's earliest landscapes. The view looks north upstream on the river Maas towards Dordrecht, where the outline of the Grote Kerk can be discerned on the horizon to the right. There was a lumber yard at this point on the river, as Joan Blaeu's map of Dordrecht of 1652 shows. Timber, felled in Westphalia and floated in rafts down the Rhine to Dordrecht, was vital for the city's shipbuilding and timber trades, and Cuyp frequently depicted the lumber rafts in his paintings. A similarly composed view, painted in the same year, and with a comparable low horizon and sharp pools of light and shade, shows a quayside in Dordrecht and was recorded by Reiss with the Brunner Gallery in Paris in 1919.υ1 We are grateful to Alan Chong for confirming the attribution to Aelbert Cuyp on the basis of photographs.
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