Rocky Landscape

Rocky Landscape from 1615 at the Statens Museum for Kunst demonstrates de Momper's mature command of the imaginary mountain landscape. His ability to create convincing geological formations from pure imagination made him the leading landscape painter in Antwerp during the early seventeenth century. 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 distinct...

Massive rock forms create a dramatic compositional framework, the geological textures rendered with vigorous, varied brushwork while atmospheric perspective extends the view to distant mountains.