Literature

Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 70
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 44-45

Provenance

Bernard Wannaar
Willem Lormier, The Hague
his sale, The Hague, 4 July 1763 (Lugt 1307), nr. 252 (for 160 guilders to Tethart Philipp Christian Haag for Prince William V)
Prince William V, The Hague, 1763-1795
confiscated by the French, transferred to the Muséum central des arts/Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815
Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816
transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822

External links

RKD 264283
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 165

Other works by Jan Steen

Moses Striking the Rock for Water
c. 1671

The Marriage at Cana
1670-74

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Peasants Merrymaking outside an Inn
1652

Esther before Ahasuerus
c. 1667-70