1134 - DE MOMPER, JOOS

DE MOMPER, JOOS 1564 Antwerp–1635 Antwerp Title: Winter Village Landscape. Technique: Oil on panel. Mounting: Parquet-mounted. Dimensions: 46 x 75 cm. Reverse: On the backing board, an exhibition label from the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Frame: Framed. Provenance refers to the lineage of a work of art; if the discerning eye of a recognized connoisseur has deemed an object to be of high quality and has included it in and retained it in his or her own collection, this is a mark of distinction that elevates the work’s standing within the artist’s body of work as well as the value of the object itself. It is a true pleasure and honor to be able to offer works of art with such well-documented provenance. Here we now present four works from the magnificent collection of the Essen-based publisher Herbert Girardet, which he built up with great passion and with the assistance of art historians Eduard Plietzsch and Horst Gerson (who served for many years as director of the RKD in The Hague) beginning in the late 1950s. Herbert Girardet’s father and grandfather had already been collectors of the highest caliber, though they specialized in 19th-century painting. During a study visit to London, Herbert Girardet discovered his interest in the “Golden Age” of the Netherlands while visiting the city’s museums, and from that point on, he was committed to building a collection and continually enhancing its quality. In 1970, a large part of this collection was presented to the public in a major exhibition at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and documented in a catalog. Joos de Mompers the Younger’s wonderful, quintessentially typical winter landscape, depicting a scene on the outskirts of a town, bears catalog number 1134. While the foreground—with the bridge spanning a river and the square in front of a church—is painted with meticulous precision and rich detail, the town’s silhouette in the background is lost amid veils of cold, hazy fog. The RKD lists several similarly composed paintings by de Mompers that are believed to have been created in collaboration with Jan Brueghel the Younger. Provenance: - Collection of Dr. Herbert Girardet, Essen; Albert Langen auction, Munich, June 5, 1899, lot 91, with illustration (attributed to Adriaen van der Venne). Exhibition: On permanent loan to the Gemäldegalerie Berlin from 1998 to 2026; most recently on view in the permanent exhibition. Literature: H. Girardet; H. Vey: Sammlung Herbert Girardet. Essen 1970, no. 33, with ill. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: This lot is not suitable for parcel shipping. Transport is only available via a shipping company after consultation following the auction. Additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: max. 41.65 euros For a total invoice amount exceeding 25,000 Euros: 1.8 per thousand Shipping to the USA by individual arrangement after the auction. #Joos de Momper #Mannerism #Flanders #16th/17th C. #Village #winter landscape #Old Masters.