Norwegian Landscape with a Timber Yard

From the Getty Museum record

The sheet depicts an unidentified Norwegian village from an elevated vantage point. Featuring rustic buildings constructed with rough-hewn planks, a tall bell tower that punctuates the horizontal composition, and neatly stacked logs of various lengths, the landscape glorifies the Scandinavian timber industry. Two figures rest beside a wooden fence. Their small size make the wooden buildings appear monumental in scale. This monogrammed drawing was made as a finished work of art intended for sale to a 17th-century Dutch collector interested in travel and the lucrative timber trade of the Baltic region.