River Landscape with Riders

River Landscape with Riders is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Aelbert Cuyp, created c. 1653–1657, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which bought it in 1965 from the Edmond de Rothschild collection in Exbury, Hampshire.

[1] The painting depicts an idyllic scene in which two Dutch officers on horseback pause by a river to let their horses drink.

In the middle distance are typical Dutch houses and some country people with a wagon.

The cloudy blue sky occupies a large part of the upper canvas, extending to the left.

Cuyp made various landscape drawings in this area in the early 1650s, which he further elaborated in his studio in Dordrecht.