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

External links

RKD 6489
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 168

Other works by Jan Steen

Moses Striking the Rock for Water
c. 1671

The Marriage at Cana
1670-74

Samson and Delilah

An interior with figures preparing fish

The Marriage at Cana
c. 1672