A river townscape with figures promenading along the bank, a bridge beyond

We are grateful to Dr. Luuk Pijl for proposing the attribution to The Monogrammist I.D.M. on the basis of a photograph and for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot. According to Dr. Pijl, the present picture closely relates in size, style and concept to a set of five, all monogrammed 'I.D.M.', belonging in 1935 to the collection of Baronin Isbary, Vienna. Two panels from this series are now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Madrid (see I. Gaskell, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting, London, 1989, pp. 430-7, as ‘Monogrammist I.D.M.’), with one depicting the Castel Sant'Angelo in a river landscape and another with unidentified architecture. The third in this series, also a river landscape, is in the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario (as ‘Joos de Momper’), and the fourth in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.