Joos de Momper, attributed to

Joos de Momper the Younger, born in 1564 in Antwerp, died on 5 February 1635 in Antwerp, was a Flemish landscape painter. He was the son and pupil of the painter and art dealer Bartolomeus Momper, and he was already registered in the Antwerp painters' guild in 1581, after which he likely undertook study trips to Italy, Tyrol, and Switzerland – it seems at least unlikely that his many alpine landscapes would be mere fantasies. However, there are a large number of paintings that go under Momper's name, but as they are almost never signed, it is particularly difficult to determine which are his own works and which are those of his imitators. Characteristic of them all is a brown foreground in one half of the painting and a green in the other, along with a blue-toned valley in the background.