Boerderij met kapberg aan een weg.

Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël's 'Boerderij met kapberg aan een weg' (Farm with a Barn on a Road, 1887) is a characteristic Dutch polder landscape — the farm with its large hayrick or barn a quintessential element of the Dutch agricultural landscape that Gabriël and the Hague School engaged with throughout their careers. Gabriël's landscapes were distinguished by their atmospheric sensitivity and tonal refinement — the silvery Dutch light captured with the same mastery as his Hague School colleagues Mauve and Maris, but applied to the specific subject of the Dutch farm in its landscape setting.

Gabriël renders the farm landscape with his characteristic atmospheric control — the farm buildings' geometric forms providing compositional structure within the open polder landscape, the road creating spatial recession toward the middle ground. His handling of the Dutch sky — its specific quality of diffused light through cloud — creates the atmospheric unity that integrates buildings, road, and landscape into a coherent tonal scene. His palette is typically restrained within the silvery-grey range of the Hague School.