Willem Romeyn was a pupil of Berchem. His scenes are usually depicted from a near vantage point, in close-up as it were, and they lack the sweeping vistas that many landscape painters preferred. Here, we see a barn with a thatched roof and a farmer with a donkey, surrounded by cattle, sheep and goats. Typically, the trees contain partially withered branches. A rolling, barren landscape fills the background.