JOOS DE MOMPER LE JEUNE | A panoramic mountainous river landscape with travellers on a path together with a dog, a fortified village on a mountaintop nearby and other village in the far distance

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 EUR

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Description

A panoramic mountainous river landscape with travellers on a path together with a dog, a fortified village on a mountaintop nearby and other village in the far distance
Oil on panel
73,5 x 104 cm; 29 by 41 in.

Provenance

Private collection, Ghent, by 1952;
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 2 December 1977, lot 100;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Paul Brandt, 30 May 1978, lot 7;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 13 October 2009, lot 36.

Literature

S. Bergmans, La Peinture Ancienne, Brussels 1952, pp. 97, 102 and 128, reproduced pl. 46 (figures attributed to Jan Brueghel the Younger);
K. Ertz, Joos de Momper der Jüngere, Freren 1986, p. 466, no. 35, reproduced on p. 467.

Catalogue Note

In his catalogue of 1986, Klaus Ertz describes the present work as a a painting done in his youth probably before 1600 (see Ertz, op. cit., p. 466). De Momper collaborated in various instances with Sebastian Vrancx, who has possibly also painted the figures in this landscape; we find evidence of this collaboration in a note in Joos de Momper's inventory of 21 January 1623, confirming the collaboration of Vrancx and De Momper (see Ertz, op. cit., p. 51).