Focus on this artwork and discuss the Painting.
The painting depicts the exotic, imaginary landscape typical of de Mompers' oeuvre and his circle. A warm-colored foreground gives way to a less warm background with bluish highlands seen from a distance. Several people are traveling up and down a winding path dug into a cliff, on top of which there sits a castle. In the foreground, there moves a group of travelers with two donkeys. Among them there are two horsemen, one of whose horses stands beside a dog. In his early work, de Momper often collaborated with Jan Brueghel the Elder, who generally painted staffage figures for him.
Jan Brueghel the Elder staffage castle