Jan Steen
The Tooth-Puller
165126 x 32.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Dated on the letter right: 1651
Mauritshuis, The Hague
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
Other works by Jan Steen
Peasants Dancing at an Inn
c. 1646-48
c. 1646-48
The Doctor's Visit
c. 1665-68
c. 1665-68
As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young
c. 1663-65
c. 1663-65
The Sick Girl
1660
1660
A wedding feast