DOI Artikel:
Tomalak, Mirosław: Two Unknown Paintings by Lodewijk Toeput and Joos de Momper the Younger
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.72800#0138
Both paintings originally came from one now unidentified collection, which
is proven by similar in style accession numbers on their reverses.1 Later on they
were separated. Probably then, while lacking its pendant based on a similar com-
positional idea, the Winter was over-painted: the figure of Janus was covered
and replaced with landscape and architecture details (fig. 3). The thin layer of
the over-painting has been removed in the present collection, after the pictures
had been put together again.
Two Unknown
Paintings...
Fig. 3. Joos de Momper and Lodewijk Toeput, Winter landscape (January) - before restoration,
1583, oil on canvas, private collection in Warsaw
Fig. 4. A fragment of Joos de Momper
and Lodewijk Toeput, Winter landscape
(January) with the date visible, 1583,
private collection in Warsaw
None of the pictures are signed,
however, one of them, the Winter, is
dated: on the ground beneath the red
gown of Janus one can see the date
"1583" (fig. 4). The date was invisible
under the over-painting, and was dis-
covered only after the recent restora-
tion of the picture.
Up until now both paintings have
been attributed to Lodewijk Toeput,
called Pozzoserrato (1564-1635), active
at the time in Treviso. While the figures
in the foreground reveal close affini-
1 Accession numbers of the paintings: 56 and 58.
137
is proven by similar in style accession numbers on their reverses.1 Later on they
were separated. Probably then, while lacking its pendant based on a similar com-
positional idea, the Winter was over-painted: the figure of Janus was covered
and replaced with landscape and architecture details (fig. 3). The thin layer of
the over-painting has been removed in the present collection, after the pictures
had been put together again.
Two Unknown
Paintings...
Fig. 3. Joos de Momper and Lodewijk Toeput, Winter landscape (January) - before restoration,
1583, oil on canvas, private collection in Warsaw
Fig. 4. A fragment of Joos de Momper
and Lodewijk Toeput, Winter landscape
(January) with the date visible, 1583,
private collection in Warsaw
None of the pictures are signed,
however, one of them, the Winter, is
dated: on the ground beneath the red
gown of Janus one can see the date
"1583" (fig. 4). The date was invisible
under the over-painting, and was dis-
covered only after the recent restora-
tion of the picture.
Up until now both paintings have
been attributed to Lodewijk Toeput,
called Pozzoserrato (1564-1635), active
at the time in Treviso. While the figures
in the foreground reveal close affini-
1 Accession numbers of the paintings: 56 and 58.
137