Landscape with a Hunt

The painting represents a landscape with a hunt and a portrait of a youth with his tutor. This is a typical Cuyp painted in his grandest manner, and dating from the most fruitful period of his career. It is pictures of this sort that established his reputation beyond his native Dordrecht, and that made him so popular with English (and Scottish and Irish) aristocratic collectors in the 18th century, with a wider circle of merchant-collectors in the 19th, and with American collectors in the 20th.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 3 minutes): Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Act III: Jägerchor