Description:

Joos de Momper (Flemish 1564-1635) and Sebastiaen Vrancx (Flemish 1573-1647)
Battle Scene Before a Darkening Sky
Unsigned
Oil on cradled panel
29 x 45-1/2 in (73.7 x 115.6 cm)Property of the Weinmann Family

    Notes:
  • Note:
    We would like to thank Dr. Klaus Ertz for his kind assistance cataloging this work. The painting will be accompanied by an opinion of authenticity from Dr. Ertz.
    Literature

    Klaus Ertz, Josse de Momper der Jüngere
    (1564-1635), Luca Verlag Freren, 1986, p. 116, fig. 74.
  • Condition:
  • Under black light: scattered areas of restoration in sky, largely along horizontal areas where the panel has cracked (see photos); likely on later cradled panel; frame abrasion with associated losses; area of cracking with some associated lifting of pigment u.r., u.c. and u.l.; small pigment loss u.l. quadrant near minor horizontal crack which runs horizontally through tower; some scattered pin-prick pigment losses.


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