Lot Essay
An early work by the artist, executed one year after his travels through Germany in the company of Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen. Compare with the painting of travellers crossing a river from the same year in the Rijksmuseum Krller-Mller, Otterloo, inv.no. 675-22 (see L. van Tilborgh, Op Zoek naar de Gouden Eeuw, 1986, illus. p. 150).