An Evening Ride near a River

An Evening Ride near a RiverIt was previously thought that this painting was not by Cuyp but a pupil under the master's 'supervision or tutelage'. Certainly the muddy handling and sketchy sheep are not typical of Cuyp's usual precision but the composition is strong and the signature seems genuine and contemporary with the picture itself.

but in reality knew nothing abt

Ommegank was a Flemish artist who lived well into the 19th century

and younger than in a self-portrait of 1793/4 recorded in a miniature copy by Bone (Bonhams

also a painter

Ribera and then to Luca Giordano

from which Emmanuel Philibert died on 3 August

suggesting that the site is a real one

decorated with emblems of the House of Savoy

in the women and children

This painting

the Dulwich canvas depicts an allegory of the human struggle between Reason and Concupiscence

a work of Ostade's later period