Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 8
Kirschenbaum 8
Braun 36

Collection catalogues
León Krempel, Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800, Petersberg, 2005, pp. 277-282

Literature
Ariane van Suchtelen, Jan Steen's histories, Zwolle; The Hague, 2018, p. 14, fig. 5

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71E1263 Moses strikes the rock twice in front of the assembled people and water gushes out; the people quench their thirst

Other works by Jan Steen

Village Festival with the Ship of Saint Rijn Uijt
c. 1653

Scene at an Inn
c. 1665

Self-Portrait as a Lutenist
1663-65

The satyr and the peasant
c. 1660

As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young
c. 1665-68