The Ford
by SIBERECHTS, Jan, Oil on canvas, 64 x 54 cm
This painting is a tribute to the fertility and the ease of summer. One milkmaid is bathing at the water’s edge while another follows her cattle through the ford. There may well be some sort of in-joke between the classical stance of this woman, elegantly balancing her milk can on her head, and the pissing cow at her side. A lovely grove to the upper right shelters grazing horses and cattle.