95 View of the Rhine Valley
rView of the Heideberger Mill
near Cleves
v
Black chalk, graphite, and gray wash; H: 13.2 cm (5^3 /i6
in.); W: 23.7 cm (9^5 /i 6 in.)
86.GG.Ó7 3
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom left cor-
ner, signed A Cuyp in black chalk; (verso) inscribed Coll.
ten Cate 196 in graphite.
PROVENANCE: D. Katz, Dieren; Bernard Houthakker,
Amsterdam; H. E. ten Cate, Oldenzaal; art market, Dus-
seldorf; Charles C. Cunningham, Jr., Williamstown,
Mass.; art market, London.
EXHIBITIONS: Dessins anciens, français, hollandais, italiens,
Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, July-August 1952,
no. 15; 150 Meisterzeichnungen des 16. bis içj. Jahrhunderts,
C. G. Boerner, Dusseldorf, December 1964, no. 13;
One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private
Collections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Hopkins
Center Art Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
N. H.; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September
1973 -January 1974, no. 26 (catalogue by F. W.
Robinson).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: D. Hannema, Catalogue of the H. E. ten
Cate Collection (Rotterdam, 1955), p. 117, no. I96;J. Gil-
tay, Aelbert Cuyp en Zijn Familie, Schilders te Dordrecht,
exh. cat. (Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, 1977), p.
172 , n. i, under no. 70.
CUYP MADE THIS SHEET AS PART OF A SKETCHBOOK OF
panoramic landscape views compiled during a visit to the
region of Nijmegen and Cleves in 1651-52. Although it
was once thought that the scene represented High and
Low Elten (Hannema 1955, p. 117), this is not the case,
and the site remains unidentified.
As discovered by J. G. van Gelder and I. Jost (Rob-
inson 1973-74), the verso of this sheet continues a draw-
ing in the Musée Condé, Chantilly (inv. 1085), that
shows a panorama of the city of Cleves, in present-day
Germany. The continuation of the Chantilly View of
Cleves in the Museum s drawing depicts a portion of the
city wall, outside of which is the Heideberger Mill as
seen from the Galgenberg. M. Westermann and E.
Haverkamp-Begemann have confirmed this connec-
tion, pointing out that a slight discrepancy in size be-
tween the Getty and Chantilly sheets indicates that one
or both have been cut down. In further support of this
relationship they call attention to the View of Cleves from
the same sketchbook in the Rijksprentenkabinet (inv.
00:106), which is extended to the verso of a drawing in
the British Museum (inv. i9O5.ii.io.67).^1 While Cuyp
used several of the landscapes from this sketchbook in
later paintings, he does not appear to have made further
use of the present example.i. Letter to L. Hendrix, July 27, 1989. My thanks to M. Wes-
termann and E. Haverkamp-Begemann for kindly sharing re-
search to be published in their forthcoming catalogue of Cuyp's
drawings.224 DUTCH SCHOOL • CUYP