In our little picture the light coming through the window makes the air almost golden.

When this painting of air and tone is set forth by the exquisite colour of Peter de Hoogh, you see this kind of Dutch achievement at its best.

Cuyp's love of sunshine is rare among Dutch landscape painters.

He suffuses his skies with a golden haze that bathes his kin and kine alike in evening light.

In our picture you can feel the great height of the sky and the depth of the air between the foreground and the horizon.