Portrait of a family.

This family portrait from around 1650 shows Aelbert Cuyp working in the portrait genre that supplemented his landscape production. As a leading artist in Dordrecht, Cuyp received portrait commissions from the city's prosperous merchant and regent class, who also collected his landscapes. Cuyp worked primarily in Dordrecht throughout his career, and his paintings of the Dutch countryside—cattle in golden light, river views, and horsemen against luminous skies—established him as one of the most technically accomplished landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

The group portrait arranges the family members in a formal composition, with Cuyp's characteristic warm light and careful attention to costume detail evident throughout.