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Village Landscape with a Bridge
Village Landscape with a Bridge

Village Landscape with a Bridge

Artist Joos de Momper II (the Younger) Flemish, 1564–1635
Datecirca 1620s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions52 1/2 x 74 in. (133.3 x 188 cm)
Frame: 61 7/8 x 82 3/16 in. (157.2 x 208.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.103
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1620s. Possibly an unidentified private collection, Czechoslovakia [present day Czech Republic and Slovak Republic] [1]. J. Brenes, Brooklyn. [David M. Koetser Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1954 [2].

[1] According to Koetser Gallery’s notes on the painting.
[2] Given a 1952 accession number, but purchased in 1954

Published ReferencesW. R. Valentiner Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), cat. no. 122, illus. (b-w).

Northern Renaissance Art in Shakespeare's Time (exhibition brochure) (Chicago: Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1964), no. 3.

Olaf Koester, "Joos de Momper the Younger Prolegomena to the Study of his Paintings," Artes Periodical of the Fine Arts (Copenhagen: Bogtrykkeriet Hafnia; Axel E. Aamodts, 1966), vol. 2, 30, 63 (footnote 22).

Klaus Ertz, Catalogue raisonné: die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog: Jan Brueghel der Ältere (1568-1625) (Köln: Dumont Buchverlag, 1979), 220-21, illus. 220.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 131.

Klaus Ertz, Catalogue raisonné: die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog: Josse de Momper der Jüngere (1564-1635) (Freren: Luca, 1986), 136, 447, 572, illus. 142.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 112.

Guy C. Bauman and Walter A. Liedtke, selected by, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Arnout Balis, Carl Van de Velde and Hans Vlieghe, eds., Flandria Extra Muros series (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 354, illus. fig. 358.

E. Melanie Gifford, Style and Technique in the Evolution of Naturalism: North Netherlandish Landscape Painting in the Early Seventeenth Century, (PhD diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1997), 81-82, 300-301, 79-81, 296-299, illus. fig. 34-39.

Huston Paschal, "Xu Bing: Reading Landscape," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (May/June 2001), 6.

Max Halperen, "Outside In," (exhibition review) Raleigh: The News and Observer, What's Up insert (April 27, 2001), 35.

Huston Paschal. "Xu Bing: Reading Landscape." North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (July/Aug 2001), illus. (b-w installation view) 4.

Eleanor H. Gustafson, "Museum accessions," Antiques (April 2004), mentioned 30.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 58, illus. (color) 279.
Exhibition HistoryChicago, IL, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, "Northern Renaissance Art in Shakespeare's Time," October 12-November 12, 1964, cat. no. 3

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Xu Bing: Reading Landscape," April 29-August 6, 2001.
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