View of the Rhine and the Elterberg

View of the Rhine and the Elterberg by Jan van Goyen is a quiet river landscape in a restrained brown-green palette. In the foreground a shoreline with cattle and figures and small boats anchors the scene, while a wooded hill with a distant church-topped settlement rises on the far bank, and the river glints with reflected light under a soft, hazy sky. The composition emphasizes breadth and tonal unity, with atmospheric modeling and loose brushwork characteristic of van Goyen’s Dutch seventeenth-century landscape style.