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

Mountain Scene with Bridges

c. 1600
Oil on oak, 53 x 71,7 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

These distinctively contoured vistas, punctuated by tiny figures in the foreground, and terminating in colourful, increasingly transparent backgrounds, are unmistakably Momper. Distance, scale and breadth - a sensibility that could be called romantic - are combined here with the traditions of earlier Flemish landscape art.




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