Landscape with Cattle 1600 who slumps over his horse

who slumps over his horse while the troops behind him flee the ambush

• Hanging hardware included

romanticized views of the American West in tantalizing color and detail

at his death in December 1872

Landscape with Cattle 1600 who slumps over his horseThis impressive panel bears the signature of Aelbert Cuyp, and until recently was never doubted as his work. Cuyp's paintings were widely appreciated in the eighteenth century, and attracted a number of imitators. The most capable of them, Jacob van Strij, is very probably the author of this picture. Among the qualities that indicate an eighteenth century painter are the impasto treatment of the clouds, the simplified highlights, the saturated greens