Landscape with Two Oaks

Two ancient, gnarled oaks occupy the right foreground, their thick trunks and curling branches forming a dominant vertical mass that anchors the composition. In the mid-ground a small group of figures on a pale, dusty path provides scale, while the broad open plain stretches to a distant, low horizon under a stormy, gray sky. The palette consists of earthy browns, greens, and grays, with careful modeling of light and shadow and a restrained, naturalistic Dutch Golden Age landscape style characteristic of Jan van Goyen.