Related works

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Hdg 6

Literature
Wouter Kloek, Jan Steen (1626-1679), Zwolle; Amsterdam, 2005, fig. 41
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 410-411
Ariane van Suchtelen, Jan Steen's histories, Zwolle; The Hague, 2018, p. 17, fig. 10, p. 40, fig. 14 (detail)

Exhibitions

2018 Jan Steen's Histories, Nr. 3

Provenance

David Grenier sale, Middelburg, 18 August 1712, nr. 53 (15 guilders)
Ewout van Dishoek sale, The Hague, 9 June 1745, nr. 20
J. Vliet sale, Amsterdam, 12 October 1774, nr. 197
with Heim Gairac, Paris
with S. Nijstad, The Hague 1953
Hans A. Wetzlar collection, Amsterdam
by descent in the family
on loan to the Mauritshuis 2008-2011
acquired with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, 2011
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Iconclass

71E11271 Moses and Pharaoh's crown: Pharaoh playfully places his crown on the head of the infant Moses, who throws it to the ground and tramples on it; or Moses breaks the crown while playing

External links

Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 1167

Other works by Jan Steen

Samson insulted by the Philistines
c. 1675-76

Traveling Musicians
1659

The satyr and the peasant
c. 1660-62

The Triumph of David
1671

Company before an Inn, 'Not without that'
c. 1661