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Mountainous Landscape

Mountainous Landscape

Artist/Maker (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Dateca. 1615
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsOverall: 19 11/16 × 36 9/16 in. (50 × 92.9 cm)
Frame: 27 5/8 × 44 7/16 × 2 1/2 in. (70.2 × 112.9 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineR. T. Miller Jr. Fund
Object number1948.321
Status
On view
More Information
The early twentieth-century "rediscovery" of the Antwerp-born painter, Joos de Momper, introduced a landscape artist of great romantic fantasy who stood at the beginning of many pictorial developments later realized in Flemish landscape painting. It is unclear if de Momper actually traveled to Italy and based his compositions on actual observations of the Alps, as did many of his compatriots. The same landscape motif appears in several other paintings by the artist (or his workshop), including works in Chicago and Dresden.
ProvenanceProbably Professor Hermann Wedewer [1852-1922], Wiesbaden, Germany. (Sale, Meurer (Wiesbaden) a.o., Berlin, February 26, 1918, no. 27). Dr. Karl Lilienfeld [1885-1966], Liepzig, Germany (until 1927) and New York; purchased 1948 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Picture of the Month
  • Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH ( 1958 - 1958 )
Joos de Momper, 1564-1635
  • Kunsthutte, Chemnitz (September 4, 1927 - October 2, 1927 )
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10, 1973 - September 2, 1973 )
Work in Context: Herri met de Bles and the Development of the Netherlandish Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 15, 1996 - September 9, 1996 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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