# Coastal Landscape [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel, 45 x 67 cm ## Commentary This painting depicting a coastal landscape with fishermen with their catch by a ruined tower is a collaborative work of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Joos de Momper. The motif of the ruined tower is based on a building on the Via Appia in Rome, known as the Tower of Scipio, of which Brueghel made drawings during his stay in Rome. It is a recurring motif in Brueghel's paintings. Brueghel's friend Joos de Momper painted the figures. The friendship between Brueghel and de Momper is well known: as early as 1612-1613, Brueghel claimed to have painted the figures in six paintings by de Momper, in addition to the staffage for a series of The Four Seasons. ## Related artworks - [A Flemish Fair \(detail\)]() - [A Flemish Fair \(detail\)]() - [A Flemish Fair]() - [Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden]() - [Air \(Optics\)]() - [Allegory of Sight and Smell]() - [Bouquet in a Clay Vase]() - [Bouquet in a Clay Vase]() - [Bouquet of Flowers \(detail\)]() - [Bouquet of Flowers]() - [Bouquet of Flowers]() - [Bouquet of Flowers]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()