Lot 205: Attributed to Wouter Knijff (Wesel 1607-after 1693 Bergen-op-Zoom)

Attributed to Wouter Knijff (Wesel 1607-after 1693 Bergen-op-Zoom)
A landscape with ruins
with signature 'A. Cuyp' (lower left)
oil on panel
15¾ x 23¾ (40 x 57.8 cm.)

Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Noord-Brabantsch Kunstbezit: Tentoonstelling Ter Gelegenheid van het 40 Jarig Regeerings-Jubileum van Hare Majesteit Wilhelmina Koningin der Nederlanden, 15 August-15 September 1938, no. 77.
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, Summer 1952.

H. de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., London, 1976, I-IV, pp. 24-27, no. 58, as 'Aelbert Cuyp'.
M.J. Friedländer, preface, Collection Dr. H. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1952, p. 10, no. 22, as 'Aelbert Cuyp'.
J.F. Martin, ed., J.B. Speed Art Museum Handbook, Louisville, 1973, p. 43, as 'Aelbert Cuyp'.
A.D. Chong, Aelbert Cuyp and the Meanings of Landscape, Ann Arbor, 1993, p. 450, no. C13, under rejected works.

Marquis d'Aoust, Paris; (+), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 June 1924, lot 21.
with Kunsthaus Kurt Benedict, Berlin, 1928.
H. Weijers, Tilburg, 1938.
Dr. H. Wetzlar, Amsterdam, 1952.
with Paul Drey Gallery, New York, by 1963, where purchased by
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, 1963.