Skittle Players Outside an Inn

The painting shows an outdoor inn yard in a Dutch village, with a group of villagers gathered around a skittles game near a wooden fence, a horse in the middle distance, and a steeply pitched-roof building visible among tall trees on the right. The composition places figures in the lower foreground, forming a diagonal flow toward the skittles, while tall trees frame the scene and a broad sky remains above. The color palette mixes earthy browns, greens, and ochres with touches of red and blue, and the scene is rendered in a naturalistic Dutch genre style with careful attention to light and everyday activity.