...... in overseas, landscape

This 1620 landscape in an overseas or exotic setting shows Joos de Momper extending his repertoire beyond familiar European terrain. The Antwerp art market's interest in exotic and imaginary landscapes reflected the city's position as a major trading hub with connections to distant lands. 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 warm b...

The composition maintains de Momper's characteristic layered spatial structure while incorporating unfamiliar vegetation and terrain features suggesting a non-European locale.