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Beneath an overcast sky at dusk Ruisdael presents a typical stormy landscape filled with twisted trees, the leaves of which sway in the wind. It is a solitary landscape, devoid of human presence. Ruisdael captures the dramatic quality of nature in all its might, enveloped in surprising light effects, thanks to which he can be regarded a forerunner of Romantic landscape painting. This work was inspired by a landscape painted by Rubens in 1635, A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, that Ruisdael had discovered in a print by Schelte a Bolswert.
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