Mountain Landscape with Castle

Painting by Joos de Momper

Mountain Landscape with Castle

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. It was probably completed in the 1600s.[1][2]

## Painting

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The painting depicts the exotic, imaginary landscape typical of de Mompers' oeuvre and his circle.[3][4] A warm-colored 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]

## Provenance of the painting

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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]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Mountain Landscape with Castle". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
2. ^ a b c "Gebirgslandschaft mit Burg". Kunsthistorisches Museum. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
3. ^ "Landscape Painting in the Netherlands". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
4. ^ "Landscape with a Mountain Pass". Liechtenstein Museum. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
5. ^ "Arthur Seyss-Inquart". Britannica. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

## External links

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* The painting at the Kunsthistorisches Museum official website
* The painting at the Web Gallery of Art

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Joos de Momper

Paintings|

* River Landscape with a Boar Hunt
* Mountainous Landscape with a Bridge and Four Horsemen
* Monk's Hermitage in a Cave
* Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
* Landscape with the Temptation of Christ
* Village at Full Moon
* Mountain Scene with Bridges
* Minerva's Visit to the Muses
* Tobias' Journey
* Dune Landscape with Travelers and Cattle
* Landscape with Grotto and a Rider
* Landscape with Grotto
* Mountain Landscape with Campers and a Broken Tree
* Landscape with a Mountain Pass
* Mountain Landscape with Castle
* Large Mountain Landscape
* Landscape with Sea and Mountains
* Mountain Landscape (de Momper, Kunsthistorisches)
* Mountainous Landscape with Figures and a Donkey

Collaborations with
Jan Brueghel the Elder|

* Excursion in the Countryside of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia
* The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in the Mariemont Park
* Summer Landscape with Harvesters
* Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall
* Mountain Landscape with Pilgrims in a Grotto Chapel
* Flemish Market and Washing Place
* A Farm
* Landscape with Skaters
* Landscape
* Life in the Countryside
* Grotto Landscape with a Hermitage

Drawings|

* Landscape with a View of the Sea at Sunset

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