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River Landscape with Boar Hunt
Also titled Rivierlandschap met everzwijnjacht
Joos de Momper (II) (Antwerp, 1564–1635)
c. 1590 - c. 1635
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Joos de Momper (1564 - 1635). River landscape with wild boar hunt, c. 1600. In this work the artist has created an impressive landscape. As was common at the time, the artist has added human figures: several men who are in the process of subduing a wild boar. The landscapes dating from this period were usually imaginary, although the artist always included a number of elements which actually existed. By around 1600 this type of landscape had evolved into a separate genre. De Momper even had someone else - Sebastiaan Vrancx - painting the figures. Joos de Momper composed his painting according to a fixed colourscheme: the foreground in brown, with the middleground in green fading into blue and becoming steadily lighter, creating the effect of depth. This illusion of depth is enhanced by the fact that various parts of the composition function as 'wings', almost as if the landscape is a stage. Purchased in 1958, with the support of the Jubileum-Fonds.
