The motif of a farmhouse set among trees in this previously unknown drawing, is one that Rembrandt repeatedly studied. Although the structure is partly hidden by the trees, it seems to be a langhuisstolp type of farmhouse where the longitudinal part of the house (langhuis) is attached to a square structure (stolp) at the back used for cows and as a barn. The small square structure separated from the house on the left is probably the outside lavatory; a comparable farmhouse is studied in a drawing in the British Museum, O. Benesch, The Drawings of Rembrandt, London, 1973, VI, no. 1244, fig. 1547. A relatively unusual feature of this drawing is the inclusion of a woman carrying pails of milk from a yoke, at the left of the house.

The drawing probably dates from the early 1650s. Comparable landscapes from this period include sheets in the Albertina, Vienna (Benesch 1245, fig. 1549), the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (Benesch 1251, fig. 1552), and at Chatsworth (Benesch 1252, fig. 1555). The lightly washed paper to achieve a warm tone in this drawing is characteristic of drawings from this period. The low viewpoint, and the composition with the foreground left almost blank and a strong diagonal, in this case a wooden fence, leading the eye to the central motif is one that Rembrandt often used; for example in the Teylers Museum view of Diemen (Benesch 1229, fig. 1530) or the drypoint of A Landscape with Road along a Ditch of about 1652 (Bartsch 221). The contrast between the more detailed penwork combined with sparing touches of brown wash in the farmhouse and the trees, and the broken penwork of the windmill and church tower in the background to suggest the shimmering effect of the atmosphere is superbly controlled, and only slightly marred by the later grey wash additions