Cuyp at his best: an enchanting river landscape, bathed in diffuse sunlight with lifelike animals and figures. But closer inspection reveals a duck hunter with a gun in the bushes to the left – this idyll may be short lived.
Aelbert Cuyp, River Landscape with Horseman and Cattle, c. 1660, Canvas, 123 x 241 cm, London, The National Gallery
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