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Mountain Landscape with Travelers
Joos de Momper, the Younger (Flemish, 1564–1635)
Flemish
1620s
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 185.4 x 264.2 cm (73 x 104 in.)
Framed: 205.4 x 285.8 x 10.2 cm (80 7/8 x 112 1/2 x 4 in.)
Framed: 205.4 x 285.8 x 10.2 cm (80 7/8 x 112 1/2 x 4 in.)
Credit Line
Partial gift of Horace Wood Brock and the Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection—Robert Jacob Edwards Fund, Charles H. Bayley Picture and Painting Fund, Seth K. Sweetzer Fund, M. Theresa B. Hopkins Fund, and funds by exchange from the Bequest of Janette J. Paul and Thomas C. Paul, the Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., the Bequest of Maurice Ames Charles, and the Gift of William D. Sohier
Accession Number2015.30
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Large landscape paintings like this one were intended to hang in the enormous rooms of European palaces, similar in scale to this gallery. De Momper traveled to Italy as part of his artistic training. On the journey, he saw the towering mountains of the Alps—the likely inspiration for his fanciful assemblages of ragged cliffs and distant valleys. dramatic peaks of the Alps—the likely inspiration for his fanciful assemblages of ragged cliffs, valleys, and castles.
ProvenanceDecember 14, 1984, anonymous sale, Christie’s, London, lot 250, sold. By about 1986, private collection, France. 1998, sold by Hendrik Houthakker (b. 1924 – d. 2008), Lebanon, NH to Horace Wood Brock, New York and Gloucester, MA; 2015, partial gift and partial sale of Brock to the MFA. (Accession date: February 25, 2015)