An extensive mountainous landscape with travellers on a path

This pastoral landscape represents a collaboration between two of Antwerp’s leading painters at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Joos de Momper, a renowned landscapist of the later Mannerist tradition, frequently collaborated with Jan Brueghel the Younger, having previously worked with his father in Antwerp from the early 1610s.
This sweeping panoramic landscape displays the typical features of de Momper’s mature style, showing a characteristic transition of colours in the receding landscape which conveys a convincing and atmospheric sense of depth, enlivened by the painter’s characteristic short strokes of paint and careful outlines in the trees and buildings. Brueghel the Younger's figures are adapted from various compositional models found in the work of his father.
We are grateful to Dr. Klaus Ertz for confirming the attribution after inspection of the original.