Hilly wheat field

The painting presents a rural Dutch landscape with a winding dirt road in the foreground leading toward a hill crowned by a golden wheat field and scattered hedges, with distant trees on the horizon. A vast, luminous sky dominates the upper two-thirds of the scene, filled with large white and gray cumulus clouds against a pale blue backdrop. The colors are restrained and naturalistic—ochre yellows for the wheat, greens and browns for the vegetation, and cool blues and grays for the clouds—executed with a smooth, atmospheric brushwork.