A forest with a ditch with a cow and a little boy with his dog in the foreground, while the forest and mountains stretch out into the distance. This landscape is notable for Pynacker's use of light to dramatise the intricacy of the foliage and decaying tree stumps in the middle distance. It is one of the first instances of Pynacker's recurring motif of a gnarled decaying birch tree stump, and also the foliage of wild cabbage in the foreground which was to reappear in landscapes his from the first half of the 1660s. The herdsman in the lower right-hand corner appears in Pynacker's earlier work. Here he counts eggs in a bird's nest. In this landscape the rough and mobile depiction of nature shows the influence of Mannerism on the work of the painter. Sharp lines and clear light and dark contrasts, such as can be seen in the silver birch trees, and the Italianate golden sunlight shining on certain spots of the woods, providing a glow into the foliage, show the character of the painter. The face of the boy in the lower right corner may have been over-painted: he no longer bears the peculiar facial features which characterize Pynacker’s shepherd boys and huntsmen. It may be, however, that the artist was experimenting with a new more idealised mode for depicting his young herdsman.