Mary visits her cousin Elizabeth

This 1617 depiction of Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth sets the Visitation narrative within Joos de Momper's characteristic landscape setting. The biblical encounter is placed within a mountainous terrain that transforms the familiar religious subject into an occasion for landscape display. De Momper's prolific output — one of the most productive landscape painters in early seventeenth-century Antwerp — was sustained through a well-organized workshop. His oil technique uses a distinctive w...

The figures are set against a backdrop of sweeping mountain scenery, with the landscape rendered in de Momper's fluid technique while the figures show the hand of a collaborating specialist.