This painting is a variant of a prototype by Jan Brueghel the Elder dated 1603 in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Inv. no. 910 (Ertz, op. cit., no. 94). An autograph replica of the Antwerp painting, signed and dated 1612 by the Brueghel I is in the Clowes Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art (ibid, no. 267). Ertz also attributes an unsigned version that was with Silvano Lodi in Campione, to Jan Brueghel I (ibid., no. 101), and lists four copies or variants, including the present work, as by Brueghel's followers: Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, London, July 12, 1978, lot 86 as by Jan Brueghel II (ibid., p. 524, note 198); Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, May 14, 1965, lot 90 (ibid., p. 524, note 198); and Museum, Kiel, Inv. no. CAU54 (ibid., note 200). The present paintings differs from the prototype and its copies in including a group of wayfarers on the riverbank at the lower right where only reeds and pilings appear in other versions.