Portrait of two gentlemen from Dordrecht Artist: Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (Dutch, 1594–1651)

ca. 1630

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

This is one of two signed drawings by Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp, who, like his more famous son Aelbert and other members of the family, worked in Dordrecht. In this drawing, one of the gentlemen looks at the viewer, perhaps about to speak; the other, in profile, looks at the first. Though their identities are no longer known, the subjects were probably upper-class members of the artist’s community, as they have elegant, fashionable clothes and are accompanied by playful hunting dogs. In the background is a recognizable view of Dordrecht. The work is charming both for the individual psychology of the gentlemen and for the lively handling of the black chalk.

Medium

Black chalk heightened with white (with a few touches of black ink) on buff paper

Dimensions

sheet: 7 5/8 × 11 in. (19.4 × 27.9 cm)

Credit Line

Egmont Collection, Yale Library Transfer

Accession Number

1961.63.20

Geography

Made in The Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Drawings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
John Percival, first Earl of Egmont (1683-1748); John T. Graves; Robert Hoe (sale New York, Anderson Auction Company, April 15-19, 1912, Library of Robert Hoe, Part III, A-K, no. 949); Yale University Library (Anonymous Donor, 1957)
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky, Suzanne Boorsch, and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 27, 136–37, no. 41, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

dogs (animals) windmills

Inscriptions

In graphite on mount at LL: "J.G. Cuyp"

Signed

In black chalk at BL: "JG [in monogram] CVyPF"

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