This is one of four paintings by Gaspard Dughet in the collection, all acquired by Frederick, Prince of Wales; it was described in 1819 in the Blue Room at Buckingham House, a room given over to landscape painting, as 'Painted with the clearness of Claude and the force and spirit of salvator Rosa. - One of his very finest works.’ It was engraved in 1786 by Wilson Lowry as 'Solitude' and copied by Lady Farnborough, the wife of George IV's agent, in a watercolour signed and dated 1821 (Kenwood). It was the only Dughet to hang in the Picture Gallery, Buckingham Palace, where it is recorded in 1852 and where it acquired its Prince Albert frame.

Since that time it has been rather overshadowed by the other Dughets in the collection, in spite of being accepted as an autograph work, dated to the years 1653-4.