Jan Steen

Girl Offering Oysters



Jan Steen - Girl Offering Oysters



Jan Steen
Girl Offering Oysters
1658-60
20.5 x 14.5 cm
Oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 853
Braun 92

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 298-299

Literature
Wouter Kloek, Jan Steen (1626-1679), Zwolle; Amsterdam, 2005, fig. 55
Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Quentin Buvelot, Masters of the Everyday, London; Brussels, 2015, fig. 30
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 79
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 167
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 41
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 242-243


Exhibitions

1996 Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller, Nr. 9

Provenance

Pieter Locquet, Amsterdam, 1783
Pieter van Winter and heirs, Amsterdam
Six Collection, Amsterdam, until 1928
gift of Sir Henri W.A. Deterding, London, 1936
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External links

RKD 303
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 818

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