ROMBOUTS, Gillis
(b. 1630, Haarlem, d. 1672, Haarlem)

Wooded Landscape with Horseman

c. 1660
Oil 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.