Landscape with Grotto

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Landscape with Grotto
Landgrot de Momepr.jpg
Artist Joos de Momper
YearLate 16th century or early 17th century
Catalogue38.20
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions61.2 [1]  cm× 93 cm(24 in× 36.6 in)
Location Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn

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 now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn. [3] [4]

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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 work. [4]

At the bottom left, a shepherd leans on his staff as his flock of sheep grazes on the meadow below. He stands overlooking two seated men, one of whom is an artist sketching the rocks and the waterfall in front of them. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Primal Landscape". Rheinisches Landesmuseum . Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 "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.

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