River Landscape with Boar Hunt
Joos de Momper the Younger
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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · Image: Rijksmuseum, Public domain · Text: Rijksmuseum (adapted), CC0