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This painting is very similar to but roughly half the size of another landscape by Aelbert Cuyp, also in the National Gallery’s collection: A Distant View of Dordrecht, with a Milkmaid and Four Cows, and Other Figures. We don't know which was painted first but presumably one of Cuyp’s customers saw one of the paintings, liked it and asked him for a bigger or smaller version. Most of Cuyp’s clients were wealthy merchants in his hometown of Dordrecht, and several had land and property in the countryside beyond; almost certainly they would have had an interest in dairy farming. Cows were a national success story. The seventeenth century had seen increasing improvements in breeding stock, better feeding practice and reclamation of flooded land – low-lying pasture was much better for cattle than sheep.
Title
A Distant View of Dordrecht, with a Sleeping Herdsman and Five Cows ('The Small Dort')
Date
about 1650-2
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 66.4 x W 100 cm
Accession number
NG962
Acquisition method
Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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View of Dordrecht English Heritage, Kenwood -
Landscape with Cattle English Heritage, Kenwood -
Seated Shepherd with Cows and Sheep in a Meadow Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
Shipping on the Maas with a Party in a Rowing Boat National Trust, Waddesdon Manor -
Shipping on the Maas at Dordrecht National Trust, Osterley Park -
Landscape with Cattle and Figures Dulwich Picture Gallery -
River Scene with a View of Dordrecht and a Windmill Manchester Art Gallery - 77 more
