# Ferryboat [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VICTORS, Jan]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 85 x 118 cm ## Commentary Victors has painted here a typical scene of rural life in a riverside village. The ferryboat carries a peasant and his cattle, so that the huge bulk of a cow stands uneasily in such a small and lightweight craft. The indifferent attitude of the peasant, who leans on the cow, sheep surrounding his feet, indicates that this trip is an everyday necessity. In another boat on the left-hand side a boy teases the ducks in the water's shallows, much to the amusement of his companion. The painting contrasts the peasants with the horseman on the right-hand side. This man, probably a soldier, is fashionably dressed and groomed, and his horse looks strong and sleek. The peasants, in comparison, wear grubby and worn clothing and the cow looks thin and slightly ungainly. In the painting Victors depicts and contrasts two different aspects of contemporary Dutch society. ## Related artworks - [Abraham's Parting from the Family of Lot]() - [Esau Sells Jacob the Right of Seniority for a Bowl of Lentils]() - [Esther and Haman before Ahasuerus]() - [Hannah Giving Her Son Samuel to the Priest]() - [Jacob Being Shown Joseph's Robe]() - [Jacob Despairing over Joseph's Robes]() - [Market Scene with a Quack at his Stall]() - [Peasants' Meal at the Stables]() - [Portrait of a Man as a Turkish Prince]() - [Ruth Swearing her Allegiance to Naomi]() - [The Banquet of Esther and Ahasuerus]() - [Town Folk Coming to the Country]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()