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Joos de Momper Antwerp 1564 - 1635
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Description
- Joos de Momper
- landscape with a distant town on a hilltop
- dated in brown ink, lower right: den 31 Januarij 162(0?)
- pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines
Catalogue Note
The precise dating indicates that this drawing very probably depicts a real location, rather than one of the imaginary views that more usually provided Momper with his subjects, but unfortunately we do not have any record of where the artist travelled at this relatively late stage in his career. His only known trip to Italy, which gave rise to most of his other known topographical drawings, took place in the 1580s.