Signs of wear consistent with age, including light abrasions to the perimeter. Inspection under UV light reveals small areas of overpainting throughout. Overall the artwork is in very good condition for its age. Light wear to the frame, including scuffs, chips and indentations.
38.5 x 32cm (15.2" x 12.6")Framed Size: 59 x 53cm (23.2" x 20.9")
Jan Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter born in Leiden in 1626. One of the most prolific artists of his era, he produced roughly 800 works over the course of his career, ranging from historical and religious subjects to portraits and allegories, though he is best remembered for his boisterous genre scenes of everyday Dutch life. Steen trained under the Leiden painter Nicolaes Knüpfer and later studied with Jan van Goyen in The Hague, whose daughter he married in 1649. He worked in several cities throughout his life, including Leiden, Delft, Warmond, and Haarlem, and for a period ran a brewery in Delft — a venture that was never particularly successful financially. His paintings are characterised by vivid storytelling, rich detail, and a sharp moral wit. Works such as The Merry Family and The Sick Woman use comic disorder and symbolic objects to deliver underlying lessons about virtue, vice, and human folly. His scenes of taverns, kitchens, and festive households were so memorably chaotic that the Dutch language coined the phrase een huishouden van Jan Steen ("a Jan Steen household") to describe a disorderly home — a phrase still used today. Despite his enormous output, Steen struggled financially for much of his life. After the death of his first wife he remarried in 1673, and in his later years he returned to Leiden, where he kept an inn. He died there in 1679. Steen's work fell somewhat out of critical favour in later centuries due to its perceived vulgarity, but he is now widely regarded as one of the great masters of Dutch genre painting, admired for his psychological acuity, technical skill, and irrepressible sense of humour.
| SKU | sy021 |
|---|---|
| Frame Colour | brown |
| Artist | Manner of Jan Steen (1626-1679) |
| Date | 18th Century |
| Dimensions | 38.5 x 32.0cm |
| Medium | Oil |
| Style | Realism |
| Subject | Genre Scene |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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