Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset

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Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset [1]
Joos de Momper drawing British Museum.jpg
Artist Joos de Momper
Yearca. 1623
CatalogueOo,9.48
Mediumpen drawing with wash
Dimensions22.3 cm× 35.4 cm(8.8 in× 13.9 in)
Location British Museum, London

Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset is a pen and ink wash drawing by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. It was painted in 1610, and is now in the British Museum in London. [1] The drawing is valuable in that it is the only drawing signed and dated by de Momper. [2]

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The drawing shows a view of the sea with the setting sun. A bay with sailing boats and mountains are visible in the distance. The painting is bordered by two wooded flanks. To the right, close to the foreground, there sits a cottage facing a country road. [2] [3]

The painting was acquired by the British Museum in 1824. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Karel G. Boon (1992). The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Volume 1. Institut Néerlandais. p. 266. ISBN   9789066302945.
  2. 1 2 3 "Landscape with a view of the sea and a setting sun". British Museum . Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. "Landscape". Web Gallery of Art . Retrieved 24 September 2020.

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