River Landscape with Boar Hunt

Joos de Momper (II), c. 1590 - c. 1635

Joos de Momper (1564 - 1635). River landscape with wild boar hunt, c. 1600. In this work the artist has created an impressive landscape. As was common at the time, the artist has added human figures: several men who are in the process of subduing a wild boar. The landscapes dating from this period were usually imaginary, although the artist always included a number of elements which actually existed. By around 1600 this type of landscape had evolved into a separate genre. De Momper even had someone else - Sebastiaan Vrancx - painting the figures. Joos de Momper composed his painting according to a fixed colourscheme: the foreground in brown, with the middleground in green fading into blue and becoming steadily lighter, creating the effect of depth. This illusion of depth is enhanced by the fact that various parts of the composition function as 'wings', almost as if the landscape is a stage. Purchased in 1958, with the support of the Jubileum-Fonds.