Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 7
Kirschenbaum 7
Braun 351

Literature
Ariane van Suchtelen, Jan Steen's histories, Zwolle; The Hague, 2018, p. 21, fig. 19 (detail), p. 26, fig. 25

Exhibitions

2018 Jan Steen's Histories, Nr. 4
1996 Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller, Nr. 47

Provenance

Sale Amsterdam, 14 May 1749, nr. i5
Balthazar Beschey, sale Antwerp (Caudron), 1 July 1776, nr. 13 (84 guilders to Jacob Franz Beschey [i.e. Balthazar's son])
Beschey sale, Antwerp, 21 August 1787, nr. 33 (130 guilders to D'Roy)
with Vincent Donjeux, Paris
sale Paris (Lebrun Paillet), 29 April 1793, nr. 262 (to Meunier, Paris)
possibly Bryant sale, London, 1864 (not sold)
private collection, Austria, 1925
A.M. Vroeg, De Mookerheide estate, Mook (Limburg) in 1926, and still in 1937
with Schaeffer, New York
acquired by the museum with funds from the State of North Carolina
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Iconclass

71E135 The adoration of the golden calf ~ Aaron (Exodus 32:1-19)

Other works by Jan Steen

Amnon and Tamar
1668-70

Twelft Night
1662

The Supper at Emmaus
1665-68

Peasant Kermis
c. 1668/70

The Garden outside an inn
1661-63