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Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 457
Kirschenbaum 25a
Braun 281

Literature
Koenraad Jonckheere, The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2008, fig. 132
Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. 99
Ariane van Suchtelen, Jan Steen's histories, Zwolle; The Hague, 2018, p. 18, fig. 11, 12 (detail), p. 57, fig. 3
Reinier Baarsen, Kwab, Amsterdam, 2018, fig. 208

Exhibitions

2018 Jan Steen's Histories, Nr. 12
1996 Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller, Nr. 32

Provenance

Arnold Houbraken collection, Dordrecht, by whom sold to Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolffenbüttel, Schloss Salzdahlum, before 1710
in 1807 confiscated by the French occupying troops, hung in Napoleon's study Saint-Cloud Castle
restituted with the ducal collection in 1815
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71T632 The writing of the marriage letter ~ Tobias and Sarah

Other works by Jan Steen

A Doctor Checking a Woman
c. 1665

A Woman at Her Toilet
1663

The Alchemist
c. 1668-70

Amnon and Tamar
1668-70

Twelft Night
1662