I was particularly moved by the view of these woods. My teacher in geography taught us that these small strokes of wood as demarcation for fields and meadows, is called brocage. I'm not sure of the Dutch spelling, let alone the English. And I can't find the French version of the word (where its origin probably lies) and even google doesn't help much.
Although I found a picture here,
some sotheby-ish auction site
which description says that it shows cows near brocage. And given that 18th century painters liked these types of landscape as well as I do, it further establishes my suspicion concerning this meaning.
I sure like to be the first and only google image hit for brocage... :)
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