Focus on Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall and discuss the Painting.
The painting depicts de Momper's typical foreign, imaginary landscape. The colors become colder and the contours less distinct as they move to the background, where a valley crossed by a river sits. Looming out of the clouds, there is a barely distinct, bluish mountain peak. A hunter with several dogs and three horsemen are marching up a mountain road. To their right, two herdsmen tending to their cattle are sitting by a waterfall. The scene is fringed by the tall trees of a wooded slope to the left, and, to the right, by a crag whence the cascade is falling to the foreground. Jan Brueghel the Elder and Joos Momper collaborated on several occasions, with the latter always painting the landscape and the former often taking care of the staffage. In this instance, Brueghel painted the figures for de Momper.
Jan Brueghel the Elder waterfall