Mountain Landscape (de Momper, Kunsthistorisches)

Mountain Landscape (German language: Große Gebirgslandschaft) is a large oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish painter Joos 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.

[3] 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.

Thanks to the 1648 Civil War in England and the several art collections that came into the market because of that, he was able to acquire a large number of valuable paintings in that period.

The Archduke amassed about 1400 paintings, including the Large Mountain Landscape,[2] which he then bequeathed to his son Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Glimpse of dale and mountains in the distance