Hello, this item is an oil painting of a rural Dutch landscape showing a dirt road, a cart and figures, a farmhouse, and a distant windmill. The signature on the front reads “W. Dalen.” This signature does not correspond to Dirk Dalens I or Dirk Dalens II, both active in the seventeenth century and associated with the Dutch Golden Age. Their works are characterized by refined brushwork, architectural precision, and Italianate atmospheric light. The painting in your images shows a much looser, nineteenth to early twentieth century manner, with broader strokes, a modern color palette, and a compositional sensibility not aligned with mid seventeenth century Dutch landscape conventions. The frame and the stretcher also reflect later manufacturing, consistent with the nineteenth century or early twentieth century.

Given the stylistic traits and materials, this work should be attributed to a later Dutch or Dutch-school painter working in a historicizing style rather than an original work by a seventeenth century artist. Paintings of this type commonly appear in estate collections and regional auctions. Comparable nineteenth century Dutch-school landscapes typically achieve between USD 200 and USD 600 depending on condition, size, and decorative appeal.