Mountain Landscape with Castle

Mountain Landscape with Castle is an oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. The painting was probably completed in the 1600s.[1][2]

Mountain Landscape with Castle
ArtistJoos de Momper
Year1600s
Catalogue6967
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions45 cm × 74.8 cm (17.7 in × 29.4 in)
LocationKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Painting

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

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
  1. "Mountain Landscape with Castle". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  2. "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.
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