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Joos de Momper
Description
- Joos de Momper
- A panoramic mountainous landscape
- oil on oak panel
Provenance
In the collection of the Barons de Draeck van Rousele, from before 1800 until 1828, when Mlle de Draeck married
Comte de Thiennes, Kasteel Rumbeke;
By descent to their daughter, Comtesse Thierry de Limburg Stirum, 1860;
By descent to her grandson, Comte Philippe de Limburg Stirum, Rumbeke;
With Van den Heuvel, Brussels, 1957;
Comte Limburg-Stirum, Anzegem, 1958;
With Gal. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1960;
Sale, Brussels, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, 23 February 1920, lot 303;
Dr Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam, acquired after 1952;
Wetzlar sale, 1977, lot 31, when bought back.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Gal. de Boer, 1960, no. 303, reproduced in the catalogue;
Breda, De Beyerd, Landschap in de Nederlanden 1550-1630, 1960-1, no. 48;
Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Landscape in the Netherlands, 1961, no. 48;
Laren, 1963. no. 115 (reproduced in the catalogue plate 42);
Dordrecht, 1964, no. 54 (reproduced in the catalogue plate 24);
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, on loan, 1977;
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rondom Hercules Segers, 1983;
On long-term loan to the Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, until 1977, and subsequently until circa 2000.
Literature
O. Koester, `Joos de Momper the Younger, Prolegomena to the study of his paintings', in Artes, 2, 1966, p. 11;
M. Jager, 'De eigenzinnige weg van Hercules Seghers', in De Telegraaf, 10 August 1983;
Voorkeuren, 1985, p. 52, reproduced p. 53;
T. Gerszi, 'Joos de Momper und die Bruegel-Tradition', in Netherlandish Mannerism, Stockholm 1985, p. 157, reproduced fig.2;
K. Ertz, Josse de Momper der Jüngere..., Freren 1986, pp. 84, 114, 497, no. 124, reproduced p. 114, fig. 72.
Condition
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