ROMBOUTS, Gillis (b. 1630, Haarlem, d. 1672, Haarlem) |
Wooded Landscape with Horsemanc. 1660Oil on panel, 58 x 90 cm Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder, The Hague | |
The dead tree in the foreground is a reference to the transience of earthly existence. Rombouts has borrowed this motif from Jacob van Ruisdael. |