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The Merry Family
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1668, painting, SK-C-229
IYoung and old are having a wonderful time: mother and grandmother are singing, the children are playing music and smoking, and father raises his glass. The note on the mantelpiece comments poignantly: ‘as the old sing, so pipe the young’. Steen’s picture brings the saying to life and warns the…
On display in Gallery of Honour
Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known…
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655, painting, SK-A-4981
Legs spread, hand on hip, Croeser sits comfortably on the stoop of his house on Oude Delft in Delft. His 13-year-old daughter Catharina is looking directly at us. Jan Steen added a narrative element to the portrait: paupers asking the wealthy grain merchant for alms. Two years later, in 1657,…
Woman at her Toilet
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655 - 1660, painting, SK-A-4052
On display in room 2.25
Interior of an inn with an old man…
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679, painting, SK-A-3347
Prince’s Day
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679, painting, SK-A-384
The Feast of St Nicholas
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1665 - 1668, painting, SK-A-385
On display in Gallery of Honour
Baker’s Couple Arent Oostwaard and…
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1658, painting, SK-A-390
On display in Gallery of Honour
Children Teaching a Cat to Dance,…
Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679, painting, SK-A-718
The Sick Woman
Jan Havicksz. Steen, c. 1663 - c. 1666, painting, SK-C-230
On display in Gallery of Honour
Self-portrait
Jan Havicksz. Steen, c. 1670, painting, SK-A-383
On display in Gallery of Honour