Jan Steen
The life of man
c. 167468.2 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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The Merry Family
1668
1668
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Family Scene
The May Queen
c. 1648-51
c. 1648-51
The Dancing Couple
c. 1662
c. 1662