Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall

Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall (Russian: Скалистый пейзаж с водопадом) is an oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper.

The colors become colder and the contours less distinct as they move to the background, where a valley crossed by a river sits.

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,[3] with the latter always painting the landscape and the former often taking care of the staffage.

The empress was a lover of art and literature, and ordered the construction of the Hermitage in 1770 to house her expanding collection of sculpture, books, and painting, among which was the Rocky Landscape with a Waterfall.