Jan Steen
The Doctor's Visit
c. 1665-6848.5 x 60.5 cm
Oil on panel
Signed lower right: JSteen. (JS in ligature)
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Literature
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 35
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 65
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 100-101
Provenance
Johan van Schuylenburch sale, The Hague, 20 September 1735 (Lugt 453), nr. 71 (175 guilders)
Isaak Hoogenbergh sale, Amsterdam, 10 April 1743 (Lugt 576), nr. 38 (for 150 guilders to Lormier)
Willem Lormier, The Hague
his sale, The Hague, 4 July 1763 (Lugt 1307), nr. 256 (for 460 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
The Preaching of St John the Baptist
c. 1653
c. 1653
The Roman Consul Manius Curius Refusing the Gifts of the Samnites
Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1650-53
c. 1650-53
The temptations of the tavern
The Quack