Mountain view

Mountain View from 1612 at the Rijksmuseum is a characteristic example of de Momper's panoramic alpine landscapes. Working entirely in the Low Countries, de Momper created convincing mountain scenery from artistic imagination, earlier engravings, and the precedent of Bruegel's alpine compositions. De Momper's alpine landscapes were constructed from imagination and artistic convention, synthesizing mountain scenery established by Pieter Bruegel the Elder into his personal vocabulary of craggy ...

The sweeping panorama uses the Flemish convention of warm foreground tones graduating to cool blues in the distance, creating a vast spatial recession enhanced by atmospheric haze.