id: 144431 accession number: 1969.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.18 updated: 2023-08-23 22:13:07.563000 Peasants Crossing a Stream, c. 1670. Jan Siberechts (Flemish, 1627-c. 1703). Oil on canvas; framed: 119 x 143 x 9 cm (46 7/8 x 56 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 99.7 x 122.5 cm (39 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1969.18 title: Peasants Crossing a Stream title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1670 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1675 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Flanders, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jan Siberechts (Flemish, 1627-c. 1703) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 119 x 143 x 9 cm (46 7/8 x 56 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 99.7 x 122.5 cm (39 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "J. sibrechts. A. anvers." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00 Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). title: Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention opening date: 1987-04-07T04:00:00 Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-May 17, 1987). title: Re-presenting the Baroque opening date: 1997-10-01T00:00:00 Re-presenting the Baroque. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 1, 1997-April 1, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE - Private collection date: footnotes: citations: Frederick Mont (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The painting is characteristic of Jan Siberechts's Antwerp style, characterized by scenes with fords through which peasants wade with their cattle. The peasants wear simple but brightly colored attire and stand out against the cool green landscape. Flanked by overgrown foliage, the silver hues of the still stream shimmer with reflections. Over the course of his career, which included moving to London in 1672, Siberechts continued to use many of the same figures in his paintings, including Flemish peasant women carrying jugs, like the one seen in this painting. Likewise, his approaches to depicting animals, such as the cows seen here, changed very little over time and are ubiquitous throughout his oeuvre. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970): 2-50. page number: Referenced: cat. no. 151, p. 48, Reproduced: p.17 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 155 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n175 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 35; Reproduced: p. 36 url: Sphinx Fine Art Gallery. One Hundred Old Master Paintings. London: Sphinx Fine Art, 2009. page number: Reproduced: p. 188, fig. 1, no. 64 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.18/1969.18_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.18/1969.18_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.18/1969.18_full.tif