Focus on Landscape with Grotto and discuss the Painting.
Joos de Momper was part of a group of Flemish landscapists whose paintings often depicted foreign and craggy topography. His landscapes often included a grotto, such is the case with the present work.At the bottom left, a shepherd leans on his staff as his flock of sheep grazes on the meadow below. He stands overlooking two seated men, one of whom is an artist sketching the rocks and the waterfall in front of them.
Flemish Joos de Momper grotto