(Antwerp 1627-c. 1700 London), Landscape with a peasant girl, a horseman and cattle by a ford, signed and dated at lower right: J. Siberechts f. 1683, oil on canvas, 82 x 118,1 cm, framed,

Provenance: Coll. Bromberg, Hamburg;
Galerie Studio, Amsterdam;
Coll. H. M. Clark, London;
sale, Fiévez, Brussels, 20 Dec. 1924, lot 108;
A. S. Drey, Munich;
Coll. Siegfried Bieber, Berlin/New York, from 1931 (from 1934/35 on loan to the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne);
Galerie Heinemann, Wiesbaden;
from c. 1970 on in a German private collection.

Literature: T. H. Fokker, Jan Siberechts, Peintre de la Paysanne Flamande, Brussels 1931, p. 83, pl. 37.

Walther Bernt writes about Jan Siberechts: "Flemish landscape and animal painter. In character, his early works are close to those by the Italianate Dutchmen N. Berchem, J. Both, and K. Dujardin. Later on he painted Flemish landscapes with faithfully observed detail. Large peasant women are on their way to the market with their full carts and cattle, marching along flooded paths or through fords. All their movements and the sprays of water are rendered most realistically and vibrantly. A silvery light wraps around the flimsy foliage or is reflected in the shallow water. Blue and red garments, shining yellow brass containers, and spotted cows and horses are set off against the greenish grey tones of the landscape…".