Jan Steen

Merry Company on a Terrace



Jan Steen - Merry Company on a Terrace



Jan Steen
Merry Company on a Terrace
1673-75
141.5 x 131.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fletcher Fund, 1958


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 443
Braun 374

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 197 info

Literature
Wouter Kloek, Jan Steen (1626-1679), Zwolle; Amsterdam, 2005, fig. 7



Provenance

Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam
his estate sale, Roos, Amsterdam, 12 July, 1819, nr. 112, to Brondgeest
?Watkins, ?London, in 1854
David P. Sellar, London, by 1888–94
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6 June, 1889, nr. 70, bought in
sale, Christie's, London, 17 March, 1894, nr. 123, to Colnaghi
with Martin Colnaghi, London, from 1894
P.A.B. Widener, Ashbourne, later Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, near Philadelphia, by 1900–died 1915
his son, Joseph E. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, 1915–at least 1925
with Gebr. Douwes Fine Art, Amsterdam, by 1927–28
A.J.M. Goudriaan, Rotterdam, 1928–at least 1937
on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1937
Mrs. J.M.A. Roosenburg-Goudriaan, ?Rotterdam, by 1951
on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 1951
sent to the U.S.A. in 1958
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York, 1958
sold to MMA

External links

RKD 224610
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 58.89

Other works by Jan Steen


Jan Steen A Doctor Checking a Woman
A Doctor Checking a Woman
c. 1665

Jan Steen A Woman at Her Toilet
A Woman at Her Toilet
1663

Jan Steen The Wedding of Tobias and Sarah
The Wedding of Tobias and Sarah
1667-68

Jan Steen Twelft Night
Twelft Night
1662

Jan Steen Amnon and Tamar
Amnon and Tamar
1668-70