At the spring - Roman bucolic.

At the Spring — Roman Bucolic, now in the National Museum in Warsaw, belongs to the pastoral genre that Siemiradzki returned to throughout his career. A spring or water source provided a natural gathering point for female figures in a Roman rural setting — bathing, drawing water, or simply resting — and the subject offered opportunities for both figure painting and the rendering of water. The date assigned in the database (1801) is certainly an error — this is clearly a work from Siemiradzki's active career, most likely the 1870s–1890s. Roman bucolic painting drew on the deep tradition of classical pastoral poetry and on the direct observation of rural Italian life that Siemiradzki could make from his Roman studio. The warm summer light, the natural spring, and the lightly draped figures form a consistent iconographic programme across several of his works.

Oil on canvas, the composition centres on the interaction between the female figures and the water source. Siemiradzki's rendering of still or gently moving water in a natural setting — the reflective surface against a stone basin or natural rock — demonstrates the same observational care he brought to his more spectacular water scenes. The figures' drapery and skin tones are modelled in the warm, Mediterranean light that pervades his entire classical oeuvre.