This painting entered the Museum`s holdings as Saint Francis in the Brambles by Jan Both. The scene is correctly classified in the catalogue of 1873. A decade later Valdivieso (1973) identifies it as the landscape listed in the Buen Retiro inventory of 1701 and proposes it be attributed to Herman van Swanevelt, albeit with the possible collaboration of Jan Both in the landscape. Luna (1984), Bargh