Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

Old Masters Day Sale, including portrait miniatures from the collection of the late Dr Erika Pohl-Ströher

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 113. Winter landscape with soldiers plundering a village.

Property from a German Private Collection

Workshop of Joos de Momper the Younger

Winter landscape with soldiers plundering a village

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December 9, 02:13 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a German Private Collection

Workshop of Joos de Momper the Younger

Antwerp 1564 - 1635

Winter landscape with soldiers plundering a village


oil on oak panel

unframed: 73.4 x 105.1 cm.; 28⅞ x 41⅜ in.

framed: 88.1 x 119.1 cm.; 34¾ x 46⅞ in.

Anonymous sale, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 26 February – 1 March 1963, lot 851;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 17 December 1999, lot 170, where acquired.
K. Ertz, Josse de Momper der Jüngere (1564–1635), Freren 1986, pp. 234 and 582, no. 423, reproduced p. 234, fig. 256 (as possibly autograph, circa 1620–30).

Klaus Ertz notes that he had not examined this painting in person when he included it in the catalogue raisonné as ‘possibly autograph’. He also notes that the staffage may be by a different hand. The composition is a variant of another winter landscape by De Momper and Jan Brueghel the Younger, with the same houses, windmill, and church in the distance, though with different figures on the path, and a tree in the centre of the composition.1


1 Ertz 1986, p. 583, no. 427, reproduced in colour p. 235, fig. 257.