Olga's Gallery
Jan Steen
(1625/26-1679)
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. Read Jan Steen's Full Biography
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The Meal. c.1650-60. Oil on panel, 40 x 49.3 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. 
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Signing of a Marriage Contract. c. 1650s. Oil on canvas, 65 x 83 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Signing of a Marriage Contract. Detail. c.1650s. Oil on canvas, 65 x 83 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Signing of a Marriage Contract. Detail. c.1650s. Oil on canvas, 65 x 83 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Smoker. 1650s. Oil on wood, 38 x 32 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The Feast of St. Nicholas. c.1660-65. Oil on canvas, 82 x 70.5 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read Note.
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Idlers. c.1660. Oil on panel, 39 x 30 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Idlers. Detail. c.1660. Oil on panel, 39 x 30 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Tavern Garden. c.1660. Oil on canvas, 68 x 58 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Sick Woman and a Doctor. c.1660. Oil on wood, 62.5 x 51 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The Lovesick Woman. c.1660. Oil on canvas, 61 x 52.1 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
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Skittle Players Outside an Inn. c.1662. Oil on panel, 33.5x27 cm. National Gallery, London, UK.
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Rhetoricians at a Window. c.1662 - 1666. Oil on canvas, 74 x 59 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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The Morning Toilet. 1663. Oil on wood, 64.7 x 53 cm. Royal Collection, London, UK.
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The Dancing Couple. 1663. Oil on canvas, 102.5 x 142.5 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
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The World Upside Down. c.1663. Oil on canvas, 105 x 145 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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The World Upside Down. Detail. c.1663. c. 1663. Oil on canvas, 105 x 145 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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Self-Portrait with a Lute. 1663-65. Oil on wood, 55.5 x 44 cm. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain.
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The Village School. c.1665. Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 80.2 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Read Note.
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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.
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The Village School. c.1670. Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 109.2 cm. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
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Tavern Scene. c.1670. Oil on wood, 55 x 50.5 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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"So de oude songen, so pypen de jongen" (Baptism). . Oil on canvas, 83 x 99 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Argument over a Card Game. . Oil on canvas, 90 x 119 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Mother and Child. . Oil on canvas mounted on wood, 29 x 24.5 cm. Alte Meister Gallerie, Dresden, Germany.
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Cat Family. . Oil on canvas, 150 x 148 cm. Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary.
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The Drunken Woman. . Oil on canvas. Mauritshuis, the Hague, Netherlands.
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