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| Keywords: Joos de Momper the younger - Winter Landscape - Walters 37363.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Q18748959 Creator Joos de Momper II The cycle of the seasons fascinated 17th-century Europeans but the shifts in the tilt of the earth that causes them were not understood Winter was especially hard then; Europe was in the middle of a little ice age and it was much colder than today The Southern Netherlands was also in the midst of a war and ill-paid soldiers terrorized the peasants Here the landscapist de Momper uses subdued color and tonal unity to suggest the bleakness of a late winter afternoon complemented by an intricate stark pattern of barren branches against the sky between 1620 1629 Baroque oil on panel cm 44 7 66 accession number 37 363 22565 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 New Light on Old Pictures Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Walters The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1981-1982 place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings by Joos de Momper II Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
