Landscape With Milkmaid And Peasants

Description Born and trained in Antwerp, Siberechts is first recorded as a master in the city's guild of St. Luke for the year 1648-49. He is chiefly known for bucolic rural views of country people executed in a vigorously realistic manner. Siberechts seems to have been particularly fascinated by the motif of peasants driving their carts along stream beds, using them as if they were roadways. In 1672 the artist moved to London, focusing thereafter on topographical views of country houses.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/16/1942	Treatment	coated; inpainted; surface cleaned; varnish removed or reduced
9/27/1984	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• New Light on Old Pictures: Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Walters. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1981-1982.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters before 1909 (listed in The Walters Collection (Baltimore 1909), no. 354.