The painting is unfinished; areas of foliage have not been completed. The attribution of this work to Rubens has in the past been doubted, but 'A Wagon fording a Stream' is now considered to be by the artist. The dating of Rubens's landscapes is problematic because they were not commissioned & so relatively few documents concerning them survive. This view also appears with slight variations in another landscape by the artist (Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen). It has also been related to a drawing in St Petersburg (Hermitage).