Return from Market; Summer Evening · At the 1884 Whitechapel Exhibition

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Title: Return from Market; Summer Evening
Actual Title: The Avenue at Meerdervoort
Artist: Cuyp
Artist Full Name: Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691)
Type: Oil on canvas
Size (HxW mm): 698 x 990
Current Location: The Wallace Collection, London: P51.
Lent By: Samuel Sandars, Esq.
Catalog Number: 81
Catalog Page: 13
Catalog Description: Cuyp, who was a brewer by trade, was a Dutch artist (A.D. 1605-1691), especially good at painting sunlight, "the best that Holland's sun can show." There are several of his pictures in the National Gallery.
Curators Notes: The painting is an alternate. It has been chosen as an example of the artist's style because the subject, the type (or genre), and the date align with the painting listed in the catalog.
Alt-Text: A tree-lined path with people on horseback and on foot, cattle resting, and dogs nearby. On the right, a river flows by a city with buildings and a windmill. The sky is bright with a few birds visible.
Image Credit: The Wallace Collection, London. Shared under a CC BY-NC-ND license.