- Artist
- Adriaen van de Velde
- Year
- 1671
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Canvas: 76 cm high × 65 cm wide
A thatched farm hut shelters beneath tall trees while a woman pauses at the doorway and a man rests beside it. Adriaen van de Velde, celebrated in his own day as the finest of the Dutch Italianate landscapists, bathes this humble rural scene in warm southern light — a quiet meditation on shelter and stillness, painted in the final year of his short life.