Artist: Joos de Momper the Younger
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 69 x 115 cm
Date: tbd.
Location: Private Collection
Matthew 2:14 “So Joseph got up, took the child and his mother
during the night, and escaped to Egypt.”
The present painting, depicting this brief passage from
Matthew, belongs to Momper’s most inventive winter landscapes. Here we find the
townsfolk seemingly going about their daily business, running errands, playing
on the frozen river, with only Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus, nondescript in
the lower left of the image, moving away from what will become the scene of a
massacre. The staffage in this painting is the work of Frans Francken the
Younger, Momper's exact contemporary. Francken and Momper collaborated
frequently.
Joos de Momper the Younger (1564 - 1635), one of the most
important landscape painters of the early 17th century, was the leading member
of an Antwerp family of artists and dealers. He was trained by his father, but
he probably went to Italy in the 1580s, in which case he would have seen the
Alps: he lived in Antwerp, but his works are invariably of great mountains,
sometimes influenced by Bruegel, and they form a transition between Mannerist
landscape and the realistic type developed in the Netherlands in the 17th
century, e.g. by van Goyen. Only a small number of the 500 paintings attributed
to de Momper are signed and just one is dated. The large output points to
substantial workshop participation. Attribution is further complicated because
of the other members of the family who worked in a similar style.
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