Extensive River Landscape

This painting shows an extensive river landscape with figures around a village with a town in the distance. A group of figures in the foreground stop to converse on a well-travelled road. Beyond them, two people make their way along the path leading towards a lake, where more figures and two horses are faintly identifiable. Near the lake, the edge of a town can be seen and in the centre of the painting, a building is nestled within the landscape in front of which stand a herd of cows and a farmer. To their right, a river meanders its way through the craggy landscape where further buildings are situated.

This painting and its pair, the Extensive Mountainous Landscape, are examples of the Flemish landscape genre. They are collaborative works of Adriaen Frans Boudewijns and Pieter Bout, who painted the staffage figures. The two artists formed a highly successful partnership.