Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers Approaching a Bridge

Josse de Momper
1564-1635

Mountainous River Landscape with Travelers Approaching a Bridge

1607
10 1/8 x 15 3/8 inches (257 x 390 mm)
Pen and brown ink and watercolor over black chalk, on paper.
2004.32

Purchased on the Charles A. Ryskamp Fund and as the gift of the Cremer Foundation and the Henfield Foundation

Notes
A landscape painter and draftsman whose work was collected in his own time, Joos de Momper was the outstanding member of a family of artists. He trained with his father, dean of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke, and traveled to Italy in the 1580s. De Momper's work belongs to the transitional period between late sixteenth-century Mannerism and the beginnings of realism in the early seventeenth century. The first drawing by the artist to enter the collection, it strengthens our holdings of Northern landscape before the age of Rubens, joining works by Paul Bril, Hendrik Goltzius, Jacques de Gheyn, and Jan Bruegel.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated on the bridge, "1607 / Joes de Momp"
Associated names
MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Esdaile, William, 1758-1837, former owner.
Komor, Mathias, 1909-1984, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department