Jan Steen

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 18
Kirschenbaum 18
Braun 299

Literature
Koenraad Jonckheere, The Auction of King William's Paintings 1713, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2008, fig. 51
Ariane van Suchtelen, Jan Steen's histories, Zwolle; The Hague, 2018, p. 18, fig. 14, p. 57, fig. 2 (detail), p. 64, fig. 14 (detail)

Exhibitions

2018 Jan Steen's Histories, Nr. 10
1996 Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller, Nr. 44

Provenance

Possibly Quirijn van Biesum sale, Rotterdam, 14 April 1717, nr. 159
possibly Cornelis Wittert sale, Rotterdam, 11 April 1731, nr. 60 (150 guilders)
Richard Pickfatt, Rotterdam, 12 April 1736, nr. 44 (101 guilders to Pieter Boetens)
sale Christie's, London, 21 January 1871, nr. 135 (15 pounds to Martin Colnaghi)
from whom purchased by Stephen Alers Hankey, Hastings, 10 February 1871 (105 pounds)
by descent to Colonel Walter Hankey, Brighton
by whom sold to Martin Colnaghi, c.1885-1899
sold to art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris 1899
purchased by Rodolphe Kann, Paris
with whose collection acquired in 1907 by art dealer Duveen
with F. Kleinberger, Paris 1926
with K.W. Bachstitz, Berlin, The Hague and London, after 1926
acquired from Bachstitz in 1939 by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts
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Other works by Jan Steen

Rhetoricians at a Window
1663-65

The Alchemist
c. 1668-70

A Doctor Checking a Woman
c. 1665

A Woman at Her Toilet
1663

The Worship of the Golden Calf
1673-77