Provenance: Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt., Visconde de Monserrate (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1901; Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bt. (1844-1920), Richmond; Sir Herbert Cook, 3rd Bt. (1868-1939), Richmond; Sir Francis Cook, 4th Bt. (1907-1978), Richmond; from whom acquired by Nathan Katz, Dieren, summer 1939; sold through Walter Andreas Hofer to Herman Goering, 1940; by whom sold through Hofer to RM 250.000, along with eight other paintings, to Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg, in September 1940; recovered by Allied Forces in November 1946 from Haus Neuerburg, Munich and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (no.40520); given over to the Nederlands Kunstbezit, The Hague, 1947; by whose authority sold at Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 11th-18th March 1951, lot 746; Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam; from whom acquired in 1952 by Herr Hans Gompertz, Rio de Janeiro; by inheritance to his wife Olga Gompertz Gevert, Rio de Janeiro;

• Jacob van Ruisdael: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings, 72 
• Jacob van Ruisdael catalog raisonné, 1911, 767
• Jacob van Ruisdael (1928), 480
• A catalogue of the paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, & elsewhere in the collection of Sir Frederick Cook, bt., Visconde de Monserrate, Vol. II Dutch and Flemish Schools, 353
• https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/master-paintings-sculpture-part-i/a-ruined-castle-gateway-probably-the-archway-of 
• RKDimages ID: 23228