Jan Steen
Jan Steen Biography
Dutch genre painter Jan Steen was born in Leiden c. 1625/26 into the family of a brewer. He enrolled briefly at the university in 1646, but very soon turned to painting. Steen probably received his training in Utrecht from Nicolaes Knüpfer, and worked in the workshops of Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem and van Goyen in The Hague, whose daughter he married in 1649.
Jan Steen 27 Most Important Paintings and Artworks
- The Meal.
c.1650-60. Oil on panel, 40 x 49.3 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- Signing Of A Marriage Contract.
c. 1650s. Oil on canvas, 65 x 83 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Signing Of A Marriage Contract. Detail.
c.1650s. Oil on canvas, 65 x 83 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Signing Of A Marriage Contract. Detail.
c.1650s. Oil on canvas, 65 x 83 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Smoker.
1650s. Oil on wood, 38 x 32 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- The Feast Of St. Nicholas.
c.1660-65. Oil on canvas, 82 x 70.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read Note.
- Idlers.
c.1660. Oil on panel, 39 x 30 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Idlers. Detail.
c.1660. Oil on panel, 39 x 30 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Tavern Garden.
c.1660. Oil on canvas, 68 x 58 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
- Sick Woman And A Doctor.
c.1660. Oil on wood, 62.5 x 51 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- The Lovesick Woman.
c.1660. Oil on canvas, 61 x 52.1 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
- Skittle Players Outside An Inn.
c.1662. Oil on panel, 33.5x27 cm. National Gallery, London, UK.
- Rhetoricians At A Window.
c.1662 - 1666. Oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- The Morning Toilet.
1663. Oil on wood, 64.7 x 53 cm. Royal Collection, London, UK.
- The Dancing Couple.
1663. Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 142.5 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
- The World Upside Down.
c.1663. Oil on canvas, 105 x 145 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- The World Upside Down. Detail.
c.1663. c. 1663. Oil on canvas, 105 x 145 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- Self-Portrait With A Lute.
1663-65. Oil on wood, 55.5 x 44 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain.
- The Village School.
c.1665. Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 80.2 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Read Note.
- The Marriage Feast At Cana.
c.1665/70. Oil on panel, 63.5 x 82.5 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Read Note.
Jan Steen Bibliography
Holland Genre Painting. XVII century. by E. Fehner. Moscow. Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo. 1979.
Painting of Western Europe. XVII century by E. Rotenberg. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1989.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller by H. Perry Chapman, Arthur K., Jr. Wheelock (Editor), Wouter Th Kloek (Contributor). Natl Gallery of Ar, 1996.
The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century by Mariet Westermann. B.V. Waanders Uitgeverji, 1999.
Jan Steen 1626-1679 by Wouter Kloek. B.V. Waanders Uitgeverji, 2006.
Jan Steen: The Drawing Lesson by John Walsh. Getty Trust Publications, 1996.
The Religious and Historical Paintings of Jan Steen by Baruch D. Kirschenbaum. Abner Schram, 1984.
