(Antwerp 1627–1703 London)
A village scene with peasants at work,
oil on canvas, 139 x 129 cm, framed

Provenance:
sale, Schönborn, Paris, May 1867 (according to literature);
Collection of N. D. Jermakow, Saint Petersburg, 1909 (according to literature);
with Julius Böhler (1860–1934), Munich, 1913 (according to literature);
with Galerie Neumans, Brussels (according to literature);
sale, Christie’s, Amsterdam, 14 November 2007, lot 157 (as Jan Siberechts);
Private European collection

Exhibited:
Saint Petersburg, Les anciennes écoles de peinture dans les palais et collections privées russes, 1909, cat. no. 340, illustrated (as Jan Siberechts)

Literature:
Baron N. Wrangel, Les anciennes écoles de peinture dans les Palais et collections privées russes, exhibition catalogue, Brussels 1910, p. 91, no. 340, illustrated (as Jan Siberechts);
T. H. Fokker, Jan Siberechts: peintre de la paysanne flamande, Brussels 1931 pp. 116–117 (as ‘tableau attribué à tort par une reproduction’);
J. Ward, Jan Siberechts (1627–1703): a 17th century Flemish landscape painter of innovative English estate portraiture, Buckinghamshire 2016, p. 353 cat. no. 15, illustrated (as Jan Siberechts)

The present painting is registered in the RKD database under no. 0000185738 (as Jan Siberechts).