SIBERECHTS, Jan
(b. 1627, Antwerpen, d. ca. 1703, London)

Crossing a Creek

1669
Oil on canvas, 94 x 116 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow

In Flemish genre painting the representation of country life remained somewhat conventional. The exceptionally vigorous naturalism with which Jan Siberechts rendered landscapes and peasants makes one think of Courbet.