Christ Riding into Jerusalem

Christ Riding into Jerusalem from 1650 by Cuyp at the Glasgow Museums is an unusual biblical subject for this predominantly landscape and cattle painter. The religious narrative is characteristically subordinated to the landscape setting. 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 biblical procession is set within a broad landscape bathed in Cuyp's warm golden light, the religious subject treated with the atmospheric sensitivity he brought to all his work.