Jan Steen

The Lovesick Maiden



Jan Steen - The Lovesick Maiden



Jan Steen
The Lovesick Maiden
86.4 x 99.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Inscribed lower right: I STEEN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Helen Swift Neilson, 1945


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Braun 289

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 195 info

Literature
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 36


Provenance

Pieter Ietswaart, Amsterdam (until 1759)
his anonymous sale, Amsterdam, March 13, 1759, no. 3
Pieter de La Court van der Voort, Leiden (until 1772)
his sale, Amsterdam, August 26, 1772, no. 4, to ?de Neuville
sale, Amsterdam, June 21ff., 1774, no. 206, to ?Fouquet
Johan Fredrik Motte, Amsterdam (until 1794)
his sale, Amsterdam, August 20–21, 1794, no. 107, to Fouquet
?Pierre Fouquet, Amsterdam
private collection, Brunswick, Germany (sold to Van Diemen)
with Galerie Van Diemen, Berlin, in 1920
Mrs. Francis (Helen Swift) Neilson, Chicago (by 1924–d. 1945)

External links

RKD 248633
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 46.13.2

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