Two pairs of children in the foreground, visible in the illustration in the second volume of Dr. Beck's monograph, were found to be later additions and were removed in 1982. Dr. Beck points out in his third volume that this gives the picture an open centre characteristic of Van Goyen's winter scenes of the years around 1640. The painting was accompanied until 1779 by a pendant 'River Landscape', untraced since then (Beck, op. cit., 1973, p.225, no.470a)