The Angel at the grave of Christ

Cuyp placed with fast, flowing paintbrush how the angel took the stone away from the tomb.

Interior of an Inn

Benjamin Cuyp painted not only numerous biblical scenes but also many batailles (equestrian fights) and themes with groups of people.

The liberation of Peter

The picture indicates the moment whereupon the angel soak Peter, whereas the sentries are still in deep sleep. With a cluster fierce of light in the further quite dark space Cuyp aimed at all attention to Peter as the leading character.

The liberation of Petrus was a popular theme in the Dutch art of painting of the seventeenth century. Benjamin Cuyp painted it at least fifteen times.

The adoration of the kings

These is one of the biggest known works of Benjamin Cuyp. In a triangle composition with a large number  of figures densely placed near each other.

Beach scene with fish sellers

Adoration of the shepherds

Benjamin Cuyp has painted this theme more than 25 times. In this version we see rough shepherds who are likely seem to be run away from the field.  

Joseph explains the baker and the pourer their dreams

The Parable of the Blind

Anunciation to the Shepherds

Brawl between Peasants

Benjamin's technique was to apply liquid paint with rapid brushstrokes. He used a limited palette of colors, brown, yellow-brown, dull greens and an occasional rust red accent. He often painted low-life genre scenes, such as this, and biblical scenes.

The Angel Is Opening Christ's Tomb

Peasants in the Tavern

The adoration of the Pastors

Soldiers repairing fortifications

The Storyteller

The Satyr and the Peasant Family

Farmers feasting before a Tavern

The Raising of Lazarus

Beach scene at Scheveningen

The Scheveningen beach is near The Hague, where the artist settles for some time in the early 1640s. The people's daily routines inspire him to depict the busy scene with a fish market, two horsemen, and the fishermen with their boats at low tide.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

 The Conversion of Saul

A guardroom interior with soldirs resting

A guardroom interior with soldiers drinking and smoking

Boors drinking and smoking in a barn

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Soldiers playing cards in a cave

Portrait of Michiel Pompe van Slingeland

Parrot Tulips

Paul at his writing table

The old man seems to stop writing a letter as if he is interrupted by the onlooker. Cuyp involved the spectator on this manner directly in the picture.

Letter, books and sword make clearly that these is the apostle Paul.

The regretful Peter

Cuyp has a number of religious works on his name. In this early picture of the mourning Petrus in a light incidence

This picture is a pendant of a painting with the apostle Paulus.

Portrait of Anthonis Repelaer

Jacob Cuyp received many portrait assignments from the Repelaer family, an influential Dordts race. Anthonis Repelaer (1591 -1652) was as beer brewer and administrator of the VOC and WIC a successful entrepreneur.

He fulfilled various functions in his town administration and put oneself in as deacon and orphan maestro.

Study of plants

This drawing was for centuries considered as made by Aelbert Cuyp.

Shepherdess wit child in a landscape

Cuyp combines in this picture his specialities: He showed that he not only persons, but also animals, plant and a scenery can be produced.

The fish market

The portrayal of fishes and of coins - the currencies in the center of the painting can be an indication that this painting is  produced by order of tthe fishers guild.

At the richt site on the background of the picture Cuyp portrayed himself.

Three children of the Francken family in a landscape

These children were from a rich family, what we can see on the pricey outfits, fully according to the fashion of those time. The girl to the left carries a ring with a skull. She died before the picture was ready.

In those days many children died young, because of that its possible why the age of the girl (2 ¼) is scratched in the tree. Of the other children only the age in years is mentioned (6 and 8).

Portrait of Abel Tasman, his wife and daughter

Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC (United East India Company). His was the first known European expedition to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands, which he did in 1643. Tasman, his navigator Visscher, and his Merchant Gilsemans also mapped substantial portions of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

 Tasmania and New Holland (now called Australia), the island of Tasmania is named after him.

The Grape Grower

Portrait of a Child

Portrait of a boy

 Portrait of a girl

Portrait of a Young Baron

Johan van Oldenbarneveldt

Portrait of a Family in a Landscape

Portrait of a gentleman, aged 47, bust-length, in black costume with a flat collar of white lace, a black coat and leather gloves

Double portrait of a father and son, the gentleman, half-length, holding a black hat in his right hand, his son, aged 11, also holding a black hat in his right hand

Peasants in an Interior

Annunciation to the Shepherds

Portrait of child holding a bird

Portrait of Maria Stricke van Scharlaken as a shepherdess

Two jaguars

Three children in a landscape

This enchanting portrait depicts three children, with a lamb and a black and white puppy. The youngsters are shown full length against the backdrop of a peaceful landscape, where sheep and cattle graze. The boy and two girls are fancifully dressed in the guise of shepherds and shepherdesses. The older girl is seated, wearing a golden-yellow dress, with square-cut neckline and laced bodice, tied at the waist with a stripy sash. In one hand she holds a broad-brimmed straw hat, bedecked with pink roses and, in the other, a branch of leaves, upon which the lamb nibbles delicately.

Her younger sister stands on her right, clad in a similar outfit in green, with a red sash and a posy of flowers in her hair. Their rosy-cheeked brother, who is dressed in a purple, knee-length garment and Roman-style sandals on his feet, stands close beside the lamb, with his hand on its woolly neck. Each child bears a crook, the traditional attribute of shepherds. On the ground close to the viewer, appear four fragile bubbles, one of which has already partially evaporated.

A Shepherd

Portrait of Johanna van Diemen, aged 61, half-length, in a cartwheel ruff with a coat of arms