| Mountain Landscape with Castle | |
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| Artist | Joos de Momper |
| Year | 1600s |
| Catalogue | 6967 |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 45 cm× 74.8 cm(17.7 in× 29.4 in) |
| Location | Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Mountain Landscape with Castle is an oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. The painting was probably completed in the 1600s. [1] [2]
The painting depicts the foreign, imaginary landscape typical of de Mompers' oeuvre and his circle. [3] [4] A warm colored and exotic foreground gives way to a less warm background with bluish highlands seen from a distance. Several people are traveling up and down a winding path dug into a cliff, on top of which there sits a castle. In the foreground, there moves a group of travelers with two donkeys. Among them there are two horsemen, one of whose horses stands beside a dog. In his early work, de Momper often collaborated with Jan Brueghel the Elder, who generally painted staffage figures for him. [1]
The painting became property of Arthur Seyss-Inquart, an Austrian Nazi leader responsible of crimes against the Dutchmen and humanity. [5] [2] The painting was acquired in 1942 by Dr. Schubert-Soldern, and became part of Vienna's Gemäldegalerie collection in 1942. [2]
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