DOI article:
Tomalak, Mirosław: Two Unknown Paintings by Lodewijk Toeput and Joos de Momper the Younger
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.72800#0148
Two Unknown
Paintings...
Fig. 9. Joos de Momper, The month of August, after 1583?, before 1590?, drawing,
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, repr. public domain
harvest19 and, on the other hand, winter landscapes with travellers, woodcutters,
hunters, or herdsmen.20
Iconography of the Seasons around 1600. The Case of the
Netherlands and Italy
The prints by Adriaen Collaert and the paintings from Brunswick were executed
at the same time. Yet their iconography could not differ more: the first series
combines all possible allegorical means of seasons' representation with earthly
activities, whereas the latter can be described as mere landscape paintings. And
when we add to these two examples the works to which we referred earlier in this
article, it may lead us to the conclusion that both the Summer and Winter from
the Warsaw private collection illustrate a very peculiar moment of the changes
occurring in the iconography of the seasons in Netherlandish art at the turn of
the 16th and 17th century. The paintings are closely related to Momper's draw-
ings and Collaert's engravings, but include one important difference: instead
19 Ertz, Josse de Momper..., Kat. 296, 321, 323-325, 327.
20 Ibidem, Kat. 389, 399, 400, 424, 427.
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