Mountain Landscape with Castle
| File:Joos de Momper (II) and Jan Brueghel (I) - Mountain landscape with castle.jpg | |
| Artist | Joos de Momper |
|---|---|
| Year | 1600s |
| Catalogue | 6967 |
| Dimensions | 45 cm × 74.8 cm (17.7 in × 29.4 in) |
| Location | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Mountain Landscape with Castle is an oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. The painting was probably completed in the 1600s.[1][2]
Painting
The painting depicts the foreign, imaginary landscape typical of de Mompers' oeuvre and his circle.[3][4] A warm colored and exotic foreground gives way to a less warm background with bluish highlands seen from a distance. Several people are traveling up and down a winding path dug into a cliff, on top of which there sits a castle. In the foreground, there moves a group of travelers with two donkeys. Among them there are two horsemen, one of whose horses stands beside a dog. In his early work, de Momper often collaborated with Jan Brueghel the Elder, who generally painted staffage figures for him.[1]
Provenance of the painting
The painting became property of Arthur Seyss-Inquart, an Austrian Nazi leader responsible of crimes against the Dutchmen and humanity.[5][2] The painting was acquired in 1942 by Dr. Schubert-Soldern, and became part of Vienna's Gemäldegalerie collection in 1942.[2]
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