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The prolific Philips Wouwerman of Haarlem was most successful Dutch painter of horses. He rarely painted large pictures: his speciality was small-scale landscapes and genre scenes which included horses - battles, skirmishes, encampments, scenes at a smithy or in front of an inn, and hunts.
His present landscape evokes a north Italian or Alpine scene. In the foreground of this rocky landscape a group of travellers have come to a halt beside a road winding its way along a narrow track between two steep rising rocks. On the rocky promontory high above on the left stands a castle from where a rickety wooden bridge spans the road below.
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