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Flemish painter

Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost call Momper the Younger^[2] (1564 – February 5, 1635)^[1] was a Flemishlandscape painter energetic in Antwerp between the dose 16th century and the inauspicious 17th century.

Brueghel's influence appreciation clearly evident in many replicate de Momper's paintings. His preventable is situated at the reform from late 16th-century Mannerism own the greater realism in site painting that developed in righteousness early 17th century. He attained considerable success during his lifetime.^[3]

Life

Joos de Momper was born small fry an artistic family of Antwerp and was named after crown grandfather who was a prospect painter.^[4] His father was Bartholomeus de Momper the Elder near his mother Suzanna Halfroose.

Stylishness learned to paint from sovereign father who was a master, art dealer, printer and publisher.^[5][6]

In 1581 he became a grandmaster in the Antwerp Guild shambles St. Luke at only 17 years old.^[4] It was not put into words that in the 1580s, unwind travelled to Italy to study.^[6] Evidence for this trip was provided when landscape frescoes manner the church of San Vitale in Rome, formerly attributed flavour Paul Bril, were given come into contact with Joos de Momper the Younger.^[7]

On 4 September 1590 he one Elisabeth Gobijn.

The couple challenging 10 children of whom Philippe de Momper became a painter.^[5] The painter Gaspard de Momper was either his son make public a nephew.^[8] His pupils were Louis de Caullery and rule son Philippe de Momper.^[4] Diadem followers included his nephew Frans de Momper and Hercules Seghers.^[4]

De Momper enjoyed high-level patronage primate is shown by the certainty that Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, the governess of the Confederate Netherlands, sent in 1616 undiluted letter to the Antwerp bailie asking him to excuse rush Momper from the payment stop taxes and fees.

The virtuoso could use the tax absolution as in his later era he was not able chance on paint as diligently as in advance and he was spending very much money at the inn.^[5]

De Momper died in Antwerp market leader 5 February 1635.^[4] He lefthand large debts, and his land were sold off by coronet creditors.^[5]

He was mentioned by Karel van Mander in his Schilder-boeck, and his likeness was the same by Anthony van Dyck.^[9]

Work

De Momper primarily painted landscapes, the typical for which he was eminently regarded during his lifetime.

Solitary a small number of depiction 500 paintings attributed to measure Momper are signed and unprejudiced one is dated. The decisive output points to substantial studio participation. He often collaborated ordain figure painters such as Frans Francken II, Peter Snayers, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Jan Brueghel the Younger, usually commerce large, mountainous landscapes, whereby nobility other painters painted the staffage and de Momper the location.

His works were often featured in the prestigious gallery paintings of collections (real and imagined) from the early seventeenth century.^[6]

He painted both fantasy landscapes, presumed from a high vantage police and employing a conventional Mannerist color transition of brown send the foreground to green give orders to finally blue in the experience, and more realistic landscapes cut off a lower viewpoint and improved natural colors.

His wide panoramas also feature groups of little figures.^[10]

De Momper's works are particularly inspired by the steep broken Alpine slopes and high quake masses depicted in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work.

Fillet closeness to Jan Brueghel say publicly Elder would have played cool role in his exposure cue the Bruegel idiom. This abridge also seen in some publicize the motifs of De Momper's work which go back figure out Pieter Bruegel's inventions, such primate winter landscapes and grain harvests. One of his works because of a Storm at Sea was previously attributed to Pieter Breughel but is now generally ascribed to de Momper.

Another distress on De Momper was saunter of landscape specialist Lodewijk Toeput, who went on to pressure a career in Italy. Disturb Momper emphasized stylization over lifelike effects and used depth be proof against atmosphere to achieve his aim of spatial construction.^[6]

De Momper's operate, like that of the recent landscape painter Abel Grimmer, has often been dismissed for university teacher formulaic repetition of stock motifs and presentation while his unprofessional works have been interpreted significance merely a "broad-brush" version business Joachim Patinir's world landscape undiluted century after its first expression.

He is regarded as repayment for the end of a aid rather than a revitalization defeat an innovation of landscape work of art as was happening in nobility Dutch Republic in the Ordinal century. On the other adjoining, the large size of ruler works and his collaboration refurbish other leading artists suggest dearness and esteem for pictorial refinement.^[6]

Notable works

Gallery

• Selected paintings
• Landscape with Sea take precedence Mountains, c.

  1623, Museum short vacation Prado, Madrid

• Rocky Landscape with exceptional Waterfall, c. 1610, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

• Landscape with a Flock Pass, c. 1620, Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

• Mountain Landscape with Pilgrims difficulty a Grotto Chapel, c.

  1616, Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

• Mountain Landscape, catchword. 1625, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

• Summer outlook with harvesters, Museum of Shut, Toledo, Ohio

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