Panoramic Landscape with Scattered Farm Buildings and a Windmill

Koninck is noted for his highly distinctive landscape style, here exemplified by the broad expanse of flat landscape, deep distance, and low horizon that emphasizes a large, open sky. His watercolor additions skillfully enhance the sense of recession into space, especially the passages that increasingly darken in the foreground to the point that they obscure the underlying lines. While his ambitious landscapes often give the appearance of an actual Dutch countryside, Koninck probably drew most of them, including this one, from his imagination. -- Exhibition Label, from "Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection"