Untraced since 1901, the present picture was published by Dr. Keyes, loc. cit., on the basis of an old photograph. Describing it as 'a major addition to Vroom's oeuvre', he dates it c.1623-4 between the Wooded Path in the National Gallery, Oslo (his no.P 31 and fig.33), which has similar prickly foliage, and the Wooded Riverbank in the National Gallery, London (his no. P 27 and fig.37), in which the composition of the present painting and the treatment of the foliage are modified under the profound influence of Adam Elsheimer. A drawing of a similar composition with spiky foliage, probably executed between the present picture and that in the London National Gallery, is in the van Marle-van Beresteyn Collection, Wassenaar (ibid., no.D 37 and fig.36). Having seen a transparency of the present work, Dr. Keyes now suggests a slightly later dating, c.1625-7