Focus on Mountain Landscape (de Momper, Kunsthistorisches) and explore the Painting.
The painting shows the typical fantastic landscape painted by de Momper. Momper was part of an imaginary trend carried on by Flemish artists who painted exotic and mountainous views in an imaginative and apparently old fashioned style, which was less realistic than that of many other 17th-century painters.Paintings of this kind were not executed in this fashion due to a lack of skills or understanding of unified space, light effects or low horizon; rather, they were produced thusly to suit the more experienced and sophisticated tastes of collectors who "valued the inventiveness and refinement of the 'imaginary' landscapes." This kind of paintings generally cost much more. The Große Gebirgslandschaft is closed to the right by a wooded cliff, from around which the viewer is given a glimpse of a dale, which recedes into a distant massif. A trail winds down into the valley from the foreground. Several people are travelling up and down the path. In the foreground, a group of travelers including a horseman and a dog are marching up the mountain trail. The latter figures have been attributed to Hans III Jordaens, who reportedly painted the staffage for this painting.
Flemish Hans III Jordaens Flemish art