Map: II

Vel'ký and Malý Bysterec are neighbouring villages in the Orava valley; today both belong to Dolný Kubín. Along the river in the narrow valley, there is a road at the base of the cliffs. Although the artist deliberately used the paper's colour to render the whiteness of the cliffs, other such blank spaces, like those of the road, the supporting wall, and the stones dispersed along the riverbed, reveal that the picture was left unfinished. - The sketch on the verso depicts a landscape full of rocks and stones. - For information on Orava river, see: