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Jan Steen
The life of man
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Jan Steen
The life of man
c. 1674
68.2 x 82 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed at right, on a column: JSteen (JS in ligature)
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 595
Braun
261
Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot,
Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 294-295
Literature
Christopher Brown,
Scenes of everyday life
, London; Boston, 1984, p. 8
Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Quentin Buvelot,
Masters of the Everyday
, London; Brussels, 2015, fig. 29
Aneta Georgievska-Shine,
Vermeer and the Art of Love
, London, 2022, fig. 44
Pennen over penselen
, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 34-35
Provenance
Adriaan Bout, The Hague, 1733
Benjamin da Costa, The Hague, 1764
Prince Willem V, The Hague, 1764-1795
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External links
RKD
6527
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Accession number
170
Other works by Jan Steen
Portrait of Geertruy Gael
1665
Wedding scene
The Dissolute Household
c. 1661-63
The May Queen
c. 1648-51
Woman Playing a Cittern
c. 1662