拍品专文
Kürt J. Müllenmeister recognized this painting as one of very few landscapes by Roelandt Savery with almost no middle ground (loc. cit.). The foreground is bookended by a wooded area with mountain goats and deer left and a rocky cliff at right. At center a waterfall rushes down and out of view, opening into a wide landscape beyond. Savery's carefully observed details, such as the upturned trees along the banks of the falls and the swans bathing together, were inspired by an extended journey he undertook in the Swiss and Tyrolean Alps between 1606 and 1607 at the request of his patron, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.