# Crossing a Creek

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SIBERECHTS, Jan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 116 cm

## Commentary

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.

## Related artworks

- [Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/landscape-with-rainbow-henley-on-thames-rfbdbe6a1af7efb>)
- [Pastoral Landscape \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/pastoral-landscape-detail-rfa6c700a97cc8e>)
- [Pastoral Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/pastoral-landscape-r3d6d8f30ffa674>)
- [Shepherdess](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/shepherdess-r79f13ddfa4586d>)
- [The Ford](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/the-ford-r1610791bfda722>)
- [The Ford](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/the-ford-r92d90930501fc5>)
- [The Ford](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/the-ford-re819435e3924ba>)
- [The Market Garden \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/the-market-garden-detail-r6ec4c08b7d0078>)
- [The Market Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/the-market-garden-r60ca24bc60425c>)
- [Wooded Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/siberechts-jan-r271ed77c3a3227/wooded-landscape-rcc95da63fb70cd>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)