River view with Large Rock

The work is a painting on copper created in 1601 by Paul Bril. It entered the collection of Dirk Margarethus Alewijn before being acquired by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 1885. The piece is currently held in the Rijksmuseum's collection and is classified as a landscape painting.

An anonymous copy of the original composition is documented in Rijksmuseum records and referenced in scholarly publications, including Maier-Preusker (1991) and van Thiel (1976).

River view with Large Rock is held in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The work entered the museum through acquisition in 1885 and is catalogued under the inventory number SK-C-573. It has been part of exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum, including a 1976 retrospective on Paul Bril’s paintings.

River view with Large Rock is catalogued as a 1601 work by the Flemish painter Paul Bril, executed in oil on copper and held by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. According to Rijksmuseum documentation, the painting in the museum's collection is an anonymous copy after Bril's original, acquired by the institution in 1885. The work has been entered into standard reference compilations of the museum's holdings, including PJJ van Thiel's 1976 catalogue of all Rijksmuseum paintings (no. 1314), where it is listed as a copy after P. Bril.

It also appears in Maier-Preusker's 1991 study on page 37, note 2, and page 73, situating the piece within broader scholarship on Bril and his landscape production. The painting's provenance traces back to Dirk Margarethus Alewijn, a documented former owner. As a small-scale copper landscape by or after Bril, it belongs to the early phase of his Italianate river-view compositions, a genre in which he was a leading figure.

River View with Large Rock entered Dutch collections in the late seventeenth century and was later recognized as a key example of Paul Bril’s landscape manner in the Rijksmuseum’s holdings. Acquired in 1885, the work has been treated as an important studio variant of Bril’s original compositions, cited in catalogues and guides as a touchstone for the study of early Flemish landscape painting. Its presence in the Rijksmuseum’s permanent displays and photographic records has contributed to sustained scholarly attention on Bril’s influence within Northern European landscape traditions.

River View with Large Rock is an oil painting executed on a copper support. Though the work bears the composition of a landscape by the Flemish artist Paul Bril, the surviving piece is an anonymous copy of his original. The painting forms part of the Rijksmuseum’s collection in Amsterdam, where it has been displayed since the late nineteenth century.

The image presents a tranquil river scene framed by a prominent rock formation, suggesting a quiet, pastoral setting. The composition balances natural elements, water, stone, and foliage, to evoke a sense of serene observation of the countryside, a common motif in late‑Renaissance landscape painting.