Joost de Momper the younger 
(1564 Antwerp - 1635)
"Mountainous Riverlandscape with Travellers"
On panel: 33 x 55 cm
Provenance
Sale Dorotheum, Vienna 1997, lot 50 p. 57 with ill.;
With Douwes Fine Art at TEFAF 1998 ;
A private European collection.
Dr.Klaus Ertz,"Josse de Momper der Jüngere 1564-1635"
Freren 1986, cat.no.270, with ill. no.301
Joost (or Joos) de Momper the Younger was one of the foremost Flemish landscape painters between Pieter Breughel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in many of de Momper's paintings. His work is situated at the transition from late 16th-century Mannerism to the greater realism in landscape painting that developed in the early 17th century. He achieved considerable success during his lifetime.