Joos de Momper
Landscape with a Distant Town on a Hilltop
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Joos de Momper
(Antwerp 1564 - 1635)
Landscape with a Distant Town on a Hilltop
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within brown ink framing lines;
dated in brown ink, lower right: den 31 Januarij 162(0?)
224 by 389 mm
Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2006, lot 22,
where acquired by the present owner
The precise dating indicates that this drawing very probably depicts a real location, rather than one of the imaginary views that more usually provided Momper with his subjects, but unfortunately we do not have any record of where the artist travelled at this relatively late stage in his career. His only known trip to Italy, which gave rise to most of his other known topographical drawings, took place in the 1580s.
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