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Description: | This work is probably a nineteenth-century copy, based on the original by Aelbert Cuyp in the Harrach Collection in Vienna. Cuyp's golden landscapes, particularly popular in Holland from the mid seventeenth century, often depicted majestic cows, which had come to symbolise the Dutch Republic's new found peace and economic prosperity, after the Peace of Münster of 1648. The river alludes to the Dutch relationship with water - defining their trade and their land, while the young boys are Holland's future. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (cows) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cuyp, Aelbert (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1620-1691) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8424... | Go to resource |
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