Landscape with monk or bishop at the river side. [Flanders or Northern Fran

Landscape with monk or bishop at the river side. [Flanders or Northern France] c. 1570-1620 Oil on panel, 21 x 16,2 cm, unsigned (several losses of paint near bottom of large rock, bishop's head and near the castle with support visible, rectangular drying cracks throughout lower section). Under 20th-c. sextagonal frame with gilding. Landscape in the tradition of Joachim Patinir with Italianesque rocks; divided into three depth planes ranging from a brown foreground, a green middle plane and a light blue or white background. Situated at the top of the rock is an idyllic castle. In the left foreground a figure with a crozier and a bishop's hat can be discerned reading a book. At his feet a nude figure is seated, holding an object in his left hand.