The tiny oil study on paper, in which Dahl captured a landscape with a high sky, appears almost abstract. The dark part of the river, bank and mountains only takes up a quarter of the sheet. Above it, the sky apeares in three broad stripes, that lead from the light horizon through a clearer blue into the dark. By changing the direction of the brush, coloured rays of light fall vertically into the centre. As minimalistic as the work appears, in subtleties such as the differentiation of the sky, the light or the glowing green strip on the bank, it is a precise observation of nature in miniature format.