Joos de Momper the Younger (1564–1635), also known as Josse de Momper, is one of the most important Flemish

Flemish people

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 landscape painters between Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish renaissance painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes . He is sometimes referred to as the "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty, but he is also the one generally meant when the context does...

 and Peter Paul Rubens. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in this many of de Momper's paintings.

Life

According to the RKD he came from an old painting family of Antwerp and was named after his grandfather who was also a landscape painter. He learned to paint from his father Bartholomeus de Momper and in 1581 he became a ""vrijmeester"" or master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. His registered pupils were Louis de Caullery

Louis de Caullery

Louis de Caullery was one of the pioneers of the genre of courtly gatherings in Flemish painting of the 17th century.-Biography:According to the RKD he was born in Caulery, which is a small town near Cambrai...

, and Philippe de Momper

Philippe de Momper

Philippe de Momper , was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.-Biography:According to Houbraken who called him simply 'Momper' in a poem about the members of the Bentvueghels, he joined the Bent with the name "Eervrugt" and was a landscape painter from Antwerp.According to the RKD he was the son of...

. He was followed by Frans de Momper

Frans de Momper

Frans de Momper, a Flemish landscape painter, who was a native of Antwerp, is inscribed in the ' Liggere' of the Guild of St. Luke in that city in 1629-30. He died at Antwerp in 1660-61. There are by him in the Augsburg Gallery, 'St. Philip baptizing the Eunuch,' and a 'Rocky Scene,' in which the...

 and Hercules Seghers

Hercules Seghers

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.

In the 1580s, he travelled to Italy to study art. De Momper primarily painted landscapes, the genre for which he was well regarded during his lifetime. He painted both fantasy landscapes, viewed from a high vantage point and employing a conventional Mannerist

Mannerism

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 color transition of brown in the foreground to green and finally blue in the background, and more realistic landscapes with a lower viewpoint and more natural colors. His wide panoramas also feature groups of figures. Only a small number of the 500 paintings attributed to De Momper are signed, and just one is dated.

According to Houbraken he was mentioned by Karel van Mander in his Schilder-boeck

Schilder-boeck

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 and his likeness was engraved by the great Anthony van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

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Notable works

• Extensive Mountainous Landscape
• Helicon or Minerva's Visit to the Muses (with Hendrik van Balen for the figures and Jan 'Velvet' Breughel for the flowers - Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp
• Flemish Market and Washing Place - Museo del Prado
  Museo del Prado
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  , Madrid
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• Landscape with the Temptation of Christ - National Gallery, Prague
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• Mountain Scene with Bridges - Wallraf-Richartz Museum
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  , Cologne
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• Paysage de neige - Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne