The interlaced monogram ‘DVL’ placed at the lower centre of this Arcadian landscape identifies the artist as the Hague painter and burgomaster Dirck van der Lisse, the most talented pupil of Cornelis van Poelenburch (c. 1594/95-1667). Van der Lisse was a celebrated artist: around 1635 he and Van Poelenburch, along with two other Utrecht painters, received a prestigious commission from stadholder Frederik Hendrik and his wife, Amalia van Solms, for a series of paintings destined for Amalia’s private apartments at Huis Honselaarsdijk.