Rocky landscape (The caravan in a valley).

Rocky Landscape (The Caravan in a Valley) from 1610 at the National Museum in Warsaw depicts travelers navigating a mountain pass, combining the drama of wild terrain with the human interest of journey narrative. Such imaginary travel scenes were popular with Flemish collectors fascinated by the Alpine routes to Italy. Characteristic of the artist's mature approach, the work displays sweeping panoramic landscapes with warm tonality, layered atmospheric recession through blue-green-brown distances, theatrical rock formations and mountain passes, staffage figures typically painted by other artists.

The caravan winding through the rocky valley provides scale to the massive landscape forms, the composition organized with strong diagonal movement through alternating zones of light and shadow.