Lot 129: JOOS DE MOMPER

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION ANTWERP 1564 - 1635 A MOUNTAINOUS LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELLERS ON A PATH, A LAKE AND HARBOUR BEYOND oil on canvas 117 by 155 cm.; 46 by 61 in.

In the family of the present owner since the 1950s.

This unpublished work is an excellent example of the panoramic landcapes for which Joos de Momper was justly renowned, earning him the sobriquet 'pictor montium' which was inscribed beneath his portrait in Anthony van Dyck's famous Iconography (circa 1632-44). A compositionally similar work of comparative size (108 by 180.5 cm.) was sold New York, Sotheby's, 20 January 1983, lot 88.