Seascape with Duiventil and Hooiberg

The painting presents a broad horizontal seascape with a calm body of water, a village of thatched houses along the right shore, and distant sails on the left. A tall dovecote on stilts and a haystack anchor the middle-right, while trees and huts line the bank and are reflected in the water. The palette is restrained, with muted browns, grays, and pale blues, and the light is soft and diffused, reflecting the characteristic tonal and atmospheric style of Jan van Goyen’s 17th-century Dutch landscape painting.