Jan Steen

Laban Searching for His Idols



Jan Steen - Laban Searching for His Idols



Jan Steen
Laban Searching for His Idols
c. 1671
109.5 x 144.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 4 info
Kirschenbaum 4

Literature
Ariane van Suchtelen, Jan Steen's histories, Zwolle; The Hague, 2018, p. 21, fig. 18


Exhibitions

2018 Jan Steen's Histories, Nr. 2

Provenance

Johan van der Linden van Slingeland sale, Dordrecht, 22 August 1785, nr. 401 (356 guilders to Beekman)
Count of Turenne sale, Paris, 17-19 May 1852, nr. 89 (4,350 French francs to Nieuwenhuys)
sale London, 28 June 1879, nr. 67 (155 pounds)
C.J. Nieuwenhuys sale, London, 17 July i886, nr. 99
Baron Cornelis Johannes Leembruggen, Leiden
by whom donated to the museum in 1889
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Jan Steen Samson insulted by the Philistines
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c. 1660

Jan Steen The satyr and the peasant
The satyr and the peasant
c. 1660-62

Jan Steen Bathsheba Bathing
Bathsheba Bathing
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