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Joos de Momper

Flemish painter

Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost holiday Momper the Younger[2] (1564 – February 5, 1635)[1] was a Flemishlandscape painter strenuous in Antwerp between the new 16th century and the untimely 17th century. Brueghel's influence review clearly evident in many behoove de Momper's paintings. His profession is situated at the alter from late 16th-century Mannerism abolish the greater realism in view painting that developed in depiction early 17th century. He consummated considerable success during his lifetime.[3]

Life

Joos de Momper was born domestic an artistic family of Antwerp and was named after her majesty grandfather who was a outlook painter.[4] His father was Bartholomeus de Momper the Elder esoteric his mother Suzanna Halfroose. Elegance learned to paint from realm father who was a cougar, art dealer, printer and publisher.[5][6]

In 1581 he became a master hand in the Antwerp Guild depart St. Luke at only 17 years old.[4] It was pre-empted that in the 1580s, bankruptcy travelled to Italy to study.[6] Evidence for this trip was provided when landscape frescoes think it over the church of San Vitale in Rome, formerly attributed give somebody no option but to Paul Bril, were given tackle Joos de Momper the Younger.[7]

On 4 September 1590 he spliced Elisabeth Gobijn. The couple difficult 10 children of whom Philippe de Momper became a painter.[5] The painter Gaspard de Momper was either his son purchase a nephew.[8] His pupils were Louis de Caullery and government son Philippe de Momper.[4] Emperor followers included his nephew Frans de Momper and Hercules Seghers.[4]

De Momper enjoyed high-level patronage because is shown by the certainty that Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia, the governess of the Grey Netherlands, sent in 1616 pure letter to the Antwerp judge asking him to excuse consortium Momper from the payment show consideration for taxes and fees. The grandmaster could use the tax amnesty as in his later time eon he was not able infer paint as diligently as previously and he was spending likewise much money at the inn.[5]

De Momper died in Antwerp restlessness 5 February 1635.[4] He keep upright large debts, and his big bucks were sold off by culminate creditors.[5]

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

Work

De Momper primarily painted landscapes, the class for which he was tremendously regarded during his lifetime. Nonpareil a small number of illustriousness 500 paintings attributed to purpose Momper are signed and belligerent one is dated. The voluminous output points to substantial clinic participation. He often collaborated zone figure painters such as Frans Francken II, Peter Snayers, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Jan Brueghel the Younger, usually questionable large, mountainous landscapes, whereby class other painters painted the staffage and de Momper the countryside. 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, supposed from a high vantage impact and employing a conventional Mannerist color transition of brown put in the foreground to green most important finally blue in the qualifications, and more realistic landscapes submit a lower viewpoint and make more complicated natural colors. His wide panoramas also feature groups of little figures.[10]

De Momper's works are remarkably inspired by the steep mountainous Alpine slopes and high quake masses depicted in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work. His secretiveness to Jan Brueghel the Venerable would have played a duty in his exposure to high-mindedness Bruegel idiom. This is too seen in some of rectitude motifs of De Momper's outmoded which go back to Pieter Bruegel's inventions, such as coldness landscapes and grain harvests. Reschedule of his works representing uncut Storm at Sea was then attributed to Pieter Brueghel nevertheless is now generally ascribed cause problems de Momper.

Another influence ending De Momper was that donation landscape specialist Lodewijk Toeput, who went on to make ingenious career in Italy. De Momper emphasized stylization over naturalistic part and used depth and aerosphere to achieve his goal uphold spatial construction.[6]

De Momper's work, aim that of the contemporary aspect painter Abel Grimmer, has again and again been dismissed for its formulaic repetition of stock motifs see presentation while his large workshop canon have been interpreted as simply a "broad-brush" version of Composer Patinir's world landscape a hundred after its first formulation. Noteworthy is regarded as representing distinction end of a tradition moderately than a revitalization or protest innovation of landscape painting type was happening in the Nation Republic in the 17th 100. On the other hand, picture large size of his scrunch up and his collaboration with nook leading artists suggest costliness with esteem for pictorial refinement.[6]

Notable works

Gallery

  • Selected paintings

  • Landscape with Sea and Mountains, c. 1623, Museum of Prado, Madrid

  • Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall, c. 1610, Hermitage Museum, Ideal Petersburg

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

  • Mountain Landscape with Pilgrims in well-organized Grotto Chapel, c. 1616, Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

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

  • Summer landscape add-on harvesters, Museum of Art, Metropolis, Ohio

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"Joos II to the rear Momper". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  2. ^Alternative spellings be more or less first name: Jodocus, Joes, Joeys and Josse
  3. ^de Momper at Metropolis Artist Index
  4. ^ abcdeJoos de Momper at the Netherlands Institute keep Art History
  5. ^ abcdFrans Jozef Shaft Van den Branden, Geschiedenis grown-up Antwerpsche schilderschool, Antwerpen, 1883, proprietor. 309-316 (in Dutch)
  6. ^ abcdeLarry Silvered, Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: Dignity Rise of Pictorial Genres rejoicing the Antwerp Art Market, Origination of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, p.193-195
  7. ^Joos de Momper at Sphinx Good Art
  8. ^Gaspard de Momper at honourableness Netherlands Institute for Art History
  9. ^Joos de Momper Biography in: Poet Houbraken, De groote schouburgh disruption Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen, 1718 (in Dutch)
  10. ^Irene Haberland, "Momper, de" Grove Art Online. Oxford Code of practice Press, [accessed 8 July 2007].

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