MOMMEBS Frans Snyders, and afterwards, while in Italy, sea-storms and shipwrecks, whence his surname. Called also Pietro Mulier, or de Mu- lieribus, because he caused his wife to be assassinated in order to many his mistress, for which he was im- prisoned in Genoa five years; when liberated, he deserted his second wife and went to Milan, where he led a wild life, under the name of Pietro Mulier. His works mark the decline of Dutch as well as Italian painting. Works : Plundering of a City in Winter, Military Camp, Brunswick Gallery ; Italian Landscape with Repose in Egypt, Carlsruhe Gallery ; Landscapes with Shepherds and Cattle (3), Cassel Gallery ; Thunder-Storm (3), Landscape with John the Baptist, do. with Man and Oxen, Dres- den Gallery ; Sally from a Castle, Kunst- halle, Hamburg ; Signal Tower on Sea Coast, Oldenburg Gallery ; Storm at Sea, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Four Land- scapes, Schleissheim Gallery ; Two Cattle- pieces, Museum, Vienna ; Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (1696), Five Land- scapes, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib. ; Land- scape with Figures and Dog, Czernin Gal- lery, ib.; Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence ; Marine with Jonah and the Whale (2), do. with Christ and the Apostles Fishing (2), Galleria Estense, Modena ; Cattle-pieces (2), Moonlight, Landing of J3neas in Italy, Historical So- ciety, New York ; others and other Ital- ian Galleries. Ch. Blanc, I5cole hollandaise ; Immerzeel, ii. 225 ; Museo fiorentino, iii. 281 ; Nagler, Mon., iv. 649 ; Riegel, Bei- trage, ii. 425. MOMMERS, HENDRIK, born in Haar- lem in 1623, died there in 1697. Dutch school ; landscape and animal painter, mas- ter of the guild in 1647, president in 1654 ; studied nature in Italy, and on his return home worked in the style of Karel du Jar- din. A vigorous and at the same time pleas- ing tone prevails in his Italian vegetable markets, marines, and pastures. Works : Market, Brussels Museum ; Mountain Laud- scape with Shepherds and Sheep, Rotterdam Museum ; Market Square in Rome, Aschaf- fenburg Gallery ; Hilly Landscape with Shep- herdess and Boys, Berlin Museum ; Ani- mals drinking at a Well, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck ; Animal-piece with Shepherdess Milking, Leipsic Museum ; Landscape with Cattle and Sheep, Old Pinakothek, Munich ; White Bull, Oldenburg Gallery ; Herd Rest- ing, Schleissheim Gallery ; Landscape with Sale of Fruit, etc., do. with Riders, Liech- tenstein Gallery, Vienna; Large |Vj 7l1 Landscape, Stock- holm Museum. Immerzeel, ii. 23(1 ; Kug- ler (Crowe), ii. 452 ; Kramm, iv. 1140. MOMPER, FRAXS DE, born in Antwerp, died there in 1660-61. Dutch school ; land- scape painter, formed under the influence of Dutch masters like Van Goyen and Rogh- man ; entered guild of Antwerp in 1629-30, painted there, at Haarlem, and The Hague. Work : View of Amsterdam, Berlin Museum. Meyer, Museen, 291, 562 ; Zeitschr. f b. K, vii. 172. MOMPER, JODOCUS (Joost, Josse) DE, the younger, born in Antwerp in 1564, died there between Nov. 2, 1634, and March 9, 1635. Flemish school ; landscape painter, son and pupil of Bartholomeus de Momper ; entered the guild in 1581, was its dean in 1611. Jan Brueghel, Frans Francken, the younger, Hendrik van Balen, and Teniers, the elder, his friends and fellow-workers, painted the figures in his pictures. Works : 281
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