Landscape with Grotto

Landscape with Grotto is an oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. The painting was completed in the 1610s, possibly in 1616,[1][2][3] and is currently housed at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn.[3][4]

Landscape with Grotto
ArtistJoos de Momper
YearLate 16th century or early 17th century
Catalogue38.20
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions61.2[1] cm × 93 cm (24 in × 36.6 in)
LocationRheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn

Painting

Joos de Momper was part of a group of Flemish landscapists whose paintings often depicted foreign and craggy topography.[5] His landscapes often included a grotto, such is the case with the present oeuvre.[4]

There are three figures on the bottom left. One of them is a shepherd leaning on his staff. His flock of sheep is grazing on the meadow below. Two of the three figures are sitting. One of them has been described as an artist, sketching the rocks and the waterfall in front of them.[4]

References
  1. "Joos de Momper (II) Landscape with grotto and artists Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, inv./cat.nr". Netherlands Institute for Art History. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. K. Ertz, K. Schütz, A. Wied et al., Das flämische Landschaft 1520–1700, Lingen 2003 [exh. Villa Hügel, Essen/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2003–4], p. 324-325, no. 119
  3. "Primal Landscape". Rheinisches Landesmuseum. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. "Landscape with Grotto". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  5. "Landscape Painting in the Netherlands". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 22 September 2020.

Further reading
  • Livre Peinture de paysage, Norbert Wolf, Taschen, 2008. ISBN 9783822854655
  • Goldkuhle/Krueger/Schmidt 1982 , p. 362-363
  • Bergvelt/Jonker 2016 , p. 244, under DPG314 and DPG323 (David Teniers II; RKD, nos. 289996 and 289998)
  • K. Ertz, K. Schütz, A. Wied et al., Das flämische Landschaft 1520–1700, Lingen 2003 [exh. Villa Hügel, Essen/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2003–4], p. 324-325, no. 119
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