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  • During Tuesday morning Electra seemed to have recovered her consciousness, but in the afternoon she relapsed into incoherent muttering of "Cuyp," "Correggio," "Titian's Bella," and "my best great picture left in Florence."

    Macaria 1872

  • During Tuesday morning Electra seemed to have recovered her consciousness, but in the afternoon she relapsed into incoherent muttering of "Cuyp," "Correggio," "Titian's Bella," and "my best, great picture left in Florence."

    Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

  • “Oxen in a Shed,” by Cuyp, went to Dr. Paul Mersch [of Paris] for $3,500.

    Caroline Matilda Sotheron at Sea 2009

  • “Oxen in a Shed,” by Cuyp, went to Dr. Paul Mersch [of Paris] for $3,500.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Cooper was influenced in his work on cattle by the Belgian painter Verboeckhoven and the Dutch painters Cuyp and Potter.

    Thomas Sidney Cooper - Common Fare Hermes 2009

  • This eminent gentleman and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each other, bore a strong general resemblance to the two cows in the Cuyp picture over against them.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • Aelbert Cuyp (circa 1620-91), one of the best landscape painters during the "golden age" of Dutch paintings, might be considered an old master if it weren't for the fact that Rubens, Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer were all daubing in the vicinity at roughly the same time.

    Beyond The Obvious 2007

  • When he had achieved this rush of vivacity and condescension, his Lordship composed himself into the picture after Cuyp, and made a third cow in the group.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • The Dutch artist Albert Cuyp (1620-91) is but one example.

    Notes 2001

  • When Huygens, as quoted by Alpers, says of Dutch artists that they can even represent the warmth of the sun, he hinted at an important truth, but he should really have said that they can create the warmth of the sun, as Cuyp mysteriously did.

    Mysteries of Dutch Painting Gombrich, Ernst 1983

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