Jan Steen

Related works

Exhibitions

2018 Jan Steen's Histories, Nr. 11

Provenance

Possibly recorded on 18 April 1676 (a Bruiloft van Tobias en Sara ['Wedding of Tobias and Sarah'] by Steen by Barent van Lin at Dispontijn, a notary in The Hague, given in payment of a debt)
possibly sale Amsterdam, 6 March 1708, nr. 4 (Bruiloft van Tobias [Wedding of Tobias], 205 guilders)
Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763) collection
Meffre Aine collection
Galerie Pierard, Valenciennes (purchased from Meffre for 1,400 francs)
sale Paris (Pierard), 20-21 March 1860, nr. 78
Ch. Levesque collection, Paris
sale Drouot, Paris, 27-28 March 1914, nr.15
Czempin collection, Berlin
with Pictura, Berlin
with Haberstock, Berlin, 1928
Buchenau collection, Niendorf-Barcelona
Girardet collection, Kettwig, 1959-1963
with Duits, London, 1965
private collection, London
sale Christie's, New York, 9 June 2010, nr. 21
with Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam, 2012-2013
private collection
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Iconclass

71T632 The writing of the marriage letter ~ Tobias and Sarah

External links

RKD 207614

Other works by Jan Steen

Sacrifice of Iphigenia
1671

The Procuress

Samson and Delilah

Fighting Peasants at an Inn

Card Players quarreling
1664