Panorama with travellers and herdsmen in the foreground

Koninck's late work consists of a group of about seven paintings, one of which is dated 1676. As he appears to have stopped painting in the 1680s, the entire series is usually dated to the late 1670s. The Rembrandtlike brushwork has disappeared from these late works and they are much more thinly painted. The emphasis in our painting appears instead to be on the reflections created by the warm sunshine and such colourful accents as the bright violet of the river, which reappears again and again, far into the greygreen landscape.