Landscape with Cattle and Figures Frame:black Archibald Hope (1664-1743)

Archibald Hope (1664-1743)

with its honey and aquamarine tones contrasted with a deep blue in the dress of the nymphs'

Attributed to Huysmans ('housman') in the Cartwright inventory

207 in the Cartwright inventory (which occurs on one of the missing pages)

probably of the famous classical statue of Venus Callipygeia ('Venus of the beautiful behind')

Landscape with Cattle and Figures Frame:black Archibald Hope (1664-1743)An early work, influenced by Van Goyen, datable c. 1640 41. As noted by Reiss, the goats were taken from drawings made by Cuyp's father for a set of engravings published by Nicolaes Visscher in 1641 under the title 'Diversa Animalia Quadrupedia'.