A far-reaching view across an open plain varied with woods, meadows, and cornfields, villages and churches amid trees, cottages and windmills.

In front are the ruins of a castle with a stagnant moat, fringed with trees and underwood.

On the left a winding road passes a cornfield with sheaves and a group of trees and is lost in the distance.

A shepherd sits on the old castle-wall, conversing with a youth seated on the ground, near a dog and three sheep.

"This capital picture may be cited as a chef d'oeuvre of the artist in this peculiar department of landscape-painting " (Sm.).

In the collection of the Marquis de Marialva, Paris, 1825; bought privately by Sm.