The painting was part of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria collection. Leopold was regent of the Netherlands from 1647 to 1656. Thanks to the 1648 Civil War in England and the several art collections that came into the market because of that, he was able to acquire a large number of valuable paintings in that period. He purchased masterpieces of both Early Netherlandish artist and contemporary Flemish artists from Antwerp and Brussels, as well as the Italian paintings from the collections of Buckingham and Hamilton. The Archduke amassed about 1400 paintings, including the Large Mountain Landscape, which he then bequeathed to his son Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. The painting and the other artwork from Leopold's collection are today housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.