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Jan Steen
Grace Before a Meal
1660
Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
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Jan Steen
Easy Come, Easy Go
1661
Museum Boymansvan Beuningen, Rotterdam
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Jan Steen
The Doctor's Visit
1663-65
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Jan Steen
Rhetoricians at a Window
1662-66
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Jan Steen
The Schoolmaster
1663-65
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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Jan Steen
Inn with Violinist Card Players
1665-68
The Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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Jan Steen
The Dissolute Household
1668
Wellington Museum, London
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Jan Steen
Card Players Quarreling
1664-65
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Jan Steen
The Lovesick Woman
1660
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Jan Steen
The Artist's Family
Mauritshuis, The Hague
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Jan Steen
Skittle Players Outside an Inn
1652 National Gallery, London
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Jan Steen
Bathsheba Receiving David's Letter
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Jan Steen
Beware of Luxury
1660-63
Art History Museum, Vienna
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Jan Steen
The Dissolute Household
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Jan Steen
Merry Company on a Terrace
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Jan Steen
Grace Before Meat
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
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Jan Steen
The Feast of St.Nicholas
1665-68
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Jan Steen
Rhetoricians at a Window (mk08)
c.1662-1666
Oil on canvas
74x59cm
Philadelphia,Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Jan Steen
The Lovesick Woman (mk08)
c.1660
Oil on canvas.
61x52.1cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemalde-sammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Jan Steen
The Word Upside Down (mk08)
c.1660
Oil on canvas
105x145cm
Vienna,Kunsthistorisches Museum
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| Jan Steen
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Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1625-1679
Daily life was Jan Steen's main pictorial theme. Many of the genre scenes he portrayed are lively to the point of chaos and lustfulness, even so much that a Jan Steen household, meaning a messy scene, became a Dutch proverb (een huishouden van Jan Steen). Subtle hints in his paintings seem to suggest that Steen meant to warn the viewer rather than invite him to copy this behaviour. Many of Steen's paintings bear references to old Dutch proverbs or literature. He often used members of his family as models. Jan Steen painted also quite a few self-portraits, in which he showed no tendency of vanity.
Steen did not shy from other themes: he painted historical, mythological and religious scenes, portraits, still lifes and natural scenes. His portraits of children are famous. He is also well known for his mastery of light and attention to detail, most notably in textiles. Steen was prolific, producing about 800 paintings, of which roughly 350 survive.
Steen's work was valued much by contemporaries and as a result he was reasonably well paid for his work. He did not have any students, but his work proved a source of inspiration for many painters.
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