Landscape with Sea and Mountains

Landscape with Sea and Mountain is an oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper.

[2][1][3][4] De Momper produced paintings that contained and highlighted both landscape and ordinary people engaged in common activities to varying degrees.

One of them entailed the depiction of a large landscape with some reduced figures in the foreground, carrying out everyday activities.

Momper was part of a group of Baroque Flemish landscapists who painted larger, more fantastical and seemingly old-fashioned views than other landcapists.

Rather than the more realistic landscapists being innovators, it was painters like de Momper who painted more imaginary landscapes (which were paid more) to please the sophisticated tastes of patrons and art collectors.