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Jan Steen

104 works

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Interior genre scene of a young couple seated by a window with an older man gesturing toward an open coin chest.

Choice between youth and wealth

1663

Painting of a chaotic schoolroom with a schoolmaster at a table, pupils at benches, a sleeping boy, and a birdcage.

A School for Boys and Girls

1670

Painting of a brick archway and tower beneath a large tree, with figures, a woman carrying a baby, and dogs on a dirt road.

Landscape with vault and tower, gypsy woman and lady hand-picking on the left

1653

Painting of a banquet with a woman seated at a laden table, a slumped man in red and gold, and a standing king among attendan

Esther, Ahasuerus, and Haman

c. 1668

Interior genre scene of a seated woman attended by a doctor and servant, with onlookers, a canopy bed, and a fruit table.

The Doctor's Visit

1600

Crowded 17th-century interior with revelers feasting, drinking, and playing music around a table, with a dog nearby.

Festive Family Meal

1674

Villagers play skittles on a green with a farmhouse and trees behind them, while women and children gather nearby.

Peasants playing Skittles

1655

Crowded tavern scene with a bride embraced by a man, a child in red, a nursing mother and a tambourine player.

A Village Wedding

1670

Painting of a barefoot preacher addressing a crowd among rocky cliffs, with an armored rider and kneeling listeners.

John the Baptist preaching

1653

Painting of a bound man in yellow robes surrounded by mocking soldiers and children in a red-draped hall, with a woman in blu

Samson Mocked by the Philistines

1676

Men and a boy play skittles on a dirt road by a thatched inn, with a horse, fence and seated drinkers under trees.

Skittle Players outside an Inn

1660

Painting of a seated man and young girl on a stoop, with an elderly woman in red and a boy beside them on a Dutch street.

Adolf en Catharina Croeser, bekend als ‘De burgemeester van Delft en zijn dochter’

1655

Tavern interior with an old man grabbing a landlady, backgammon players at a table, and a sleeping dog on the floor.

Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as ‘The Do…

1660

Painting of children and adults in a tavern interior, a girl playing a recorder while a man holds up a cat and a dog watches.

Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as ‘The Dancing Lesson’

1660

Painting of a tooth-puller pulling a tooth from a seated man as a crowd watches under trees.

The Tooth-Puller

1651

Painting of a girl seated among poultry, a peacock, ducks and turkeys in a courtyard, with a building seen through an archway

Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer (1654-1683), known as 'The Poultry Yard'

1660

Jan Steen's 1663 interior scene of a seated woman in blue with a man in black, a servant, a dog, and a red curtained bed.

The Sick Girl

1663

Elderly couple in a dim interior; the man grates food while the woman holds a bowl at a table.

An Old Couple Making Caudle

1665

Painting of a man pouring wine for a seated woman at a table in a shaded tavern garden, with onlookers and dogs nearby.

Im Wirtshausgarten

1660

Genre scene of a woman playing flute, a dog, a man holding a cat, children and a peeking man in a tavern interior.

Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as The Dancing Lesson

1660

Painting of a crowded village square where a quack treats a seated patient beneath a large tree, with a monkey and dog nearby

The quack

1650

Woman in a white bonnet pulling on a red stocking in a dim interior, with a sleeping dog on a bed behind her.

Het toilet

1655

Interior scene of a merry family gathering with musicians, a dog, children and a table with ham and bread.

Het vrolijke huisgezin

1668

Interior scene: a pale woman in yellow and gray sits by a bed as a man in a brown cloak takes her wrist.

De zieke vrouw

1663

Crowded tavern interior with revelers drinking and feasting around tables, a kneeling man in the foreground, and a child near

Prince’s Day

1660

Painting of a crowded boat at a riverside inn, with a couple embracing and a boy playing a flute under a cloudy sky.

The merry homecoming

1670

Woman in a white blouse and blue apron scours metal in a wooden tub beside a brass lantern and pewter plates.

Woman scouring metalware

1650

Woman in white headscarf and green dress drinking from a glass as a man with a jug looks on in a dim interior.

A couple drinking

1660

Painting of a meal under a vine-covered portico, with seated men, a servant holding bread, and a faint haloed figure.

De Emmaüsgangers

1665

Tavern interior with an old man embracing a landlady, men playing backgammon, a dog, and scattered oyster shells on the floor

Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two ki…

1660

Painting of a wooded scene with a seated man, a standing man in red, a woman, bread, fish, and a jug under a large tree.

Erysichthon selling his daughter

1650

Interior genre scene of a family gathering in a vaulted room, with a man smoking a pipe and a woman holding a child.

Family scene

1660