MOMPER, Joos de
(b. 1564, Antwerpen, d. 1634/35, Antwerpen)

Winter Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

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Oil on oak panel, 69 x 115 cm
Private collection

Joos de Momper was one of the most important landscape painters of the early 17th century, the present painting belongs to his most inventive winter landscapes. The staffage in this painting is the work of Frans Francken the Younger, Momper's exact contemporary and the most famous of a dynasty of Antwerp painters. Francken and Momper collaborated frequently.