Landscape with Grotto is an oil-on-panel painting by Flemish painter Joos de Momper. The painting was completed in the 1610s, possibly in 1616,K. Ertz, K. Schütz, A. Wied et al., Das flämische Landschaft 1520–1700, Lingen 2003 [exh. Villa Hügel, Essen/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2003–4], p. 324-325, no. 119 and is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn.
Painting Joos de Momper was part of a group of Flemish landscapists whose paintings often depicted foreign and craggy topography. His landscapes often included a grotto, such is the case with the present work.
At the bottom left, a shepherd leans on his staff as his flock of sheep grazes on the meadow below. He stands overlooking two seated men, one of whom is an artist sketching the rocks and the waterfall in front of them.
References
Further reading Livre Peinture de paysage, Norbert Wolf, Taschen, 2008. Goldkuhle/Krueger/Schmidt 1982, p. 362-363 Bergvelt/Jonker 2016, p. 244, under DPG314 and DPG323 (David Teniers II; RKD, nos. 289996 and 289998) K. Ertz, K. Schütz, A. Wied et al., Das flämische Landschaft 1520–1700, Lingen 2003 [exh. Villa Hügel, Essen/Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 2003–4], p. 324–325, no. 119
External links The painting at LVR official website The painting at the Web Gallery of Art