It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the National Gallery.

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "239.

The waterfall fills the whole foreground, rushing down over rocks from a broad basin.

Although the depicted landscape is Scandinavia, Ruisdael never left a record of visiting foreign countries outside Germany.

From the middle of the 1650s he produced a series of waterfalls over boulders, surrounded by high pine trees, inspired by the work of the artist Allaert van Everdingen, who visited Norway and Sweden in 1644.