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In the inventories of the assets of Mrs. Catalina Colón and Portugal, wife of Don Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick, there are: “Two countries equal on the table, one the battle of the Amazons crossing a bridge and the other of different groves, farmhouses, men and cattle, and a cart with its horse, two and a half rods wide and 6 quarters high with its narrow carved and golden frames.” Without a doubt, this is the country mentioned. As for the one in the Amazons, it is certainly the one that is listed below, although it is neither in the table nor are the measurements appropriate.

This magnificent landscape, undoubtedly original, is a repetition with variants of the one that exists in Windsor known as “The Summer”. Recorded by Bolswert, Schelte and Van Kessel. Sánchez Cantón describes the painting as “one of those spacious, bright and peaceful landscapes in which the great artist took pleasure from time to time to rest from his constant activity in composing mythological fables and devout or allegorical subjects; even because of its size, it relates to the “Landscape of Stein Castle”, from the National Gallery in London, painted in 1636, and is the same as another one in the collection of the King of England.