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Joos de Momper II (Antwerp

Joos de Momper d. J. war bekannt für seine vorromantischen Gebirgs- und Seenlandschaften. Sie kennzeichnen sich meist durch einen rot-braunen Vordergrund, ein gelb-grünes Mittelstück und eine grau-blaue Ferne.

Klaus Ertz notes that he The present painting is accompanied by a letter by the late Klaus Ertz from 1 August , dating the work to circa and attributing the landscape to Joos de Momper II and the staffage to Jan Brueghel II.

Ertz, loc. cit., includes this This depiction of a mountain landscape with a ford is one of the earliest works by the Flemish landscape painter Joos de Momper. Klaus Ertz dates the piece to the late s and sees in it strong echoes of the artist's journey to Italy in the early and mid 80s, although there is no documentary evidence of this journey.

The present painting is Ertz dates the present painting to the s. The figures are by Jan Brueghel II. Joos de Momper was one of Antwerp’s leading landscape painters in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and became particularly well known as a painter of mountainscapes.

Explore Josse de Momper's This beautiful example has been dated by Klaus Ertz (see Literature) to De Momper’s mature period, in the early s. From an elevated viewpoint, the earth tones and greens of the foreground give way to an ethereal blue as the landscape recedes into the distance.

The present composition is a studio Although best known amongst his contemporaries for his mountainous views - which earned the painter the sobriquet 'pictor montium' inscribed beneath his portrait in Van Dyck's Iconography (c. ) - it is arguably for his winter landscapes that de Momper is now most highly regarded.

Signature: unsigned. #20032660. consulted with Further examples of Brueghel the Younger's collaboration with de Momper are also dated to around the same period by Ertz (see for example, Ertz, op. cit., , pp. , , , , , , , and , nos. and , figs. , , and ).

The present painting is accompanied De Momper's name was so closely associated with his mountain landscapes that in the extremely popular Iconography, a series of portrait prints of artists based on Van Dyck’s designs, he is described as Judocus de Momper Pictor montium Antwerpiae (Josse de Momper Antwerp Painter of mountains). He was extremely creative, drawing on a variety of.