Born in Leiden around 1626 as the son of a brewer, Jan Havickszoon Steen trained as a painter with various Dutch and German masters. He worked as an assistant to the landscape painter Jan van Goyen, with whose daughter Margriet he was married until her death in 1669. He was dean of the Sint Lucas Guild in Leiden and, in addition to his career as a painter, also ran a tavern. There are many legends and tales about him, he was considered to be a funny journeyman, his best customer as an innkeeper, and a chaotic head of the family.
Steen's subjects were of a varied nature, the depictions in his detailed paintings range from Old Testament episodes to satirical social criticism and comic scenes of bourgeois life. His lively interpretation of turbulent gatherings of many characters even found its way into the Dutch language as a proverb: "een huishouden van Jan Steen" is characteristic of domestic disorder. Steen often gave the superficial impression of joy and cheerfulness, but on closer inspection, the gentle scolding for wrong behaviour is striking. Steen had a special preference for the pictorial representation of music and instruments, as in his self-portrait as a lute player. In "The upside-down world" from 1663, Steen humorously deals with old Dutch proverbs, which he has the characters play as in a play. Jan Steen died in 1679 and was buried in the family grave in Leiden. © Meisterdrucke
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Born in Leiden around 1626 as the son of a brewer, Jan Havickszoon Steen trained as a painter with various Dutch and German masters. He worked as an assistant to the landscape painter Jan van Goyen, with whose daughter Margriet he was married until her death in 1669. He was dean of the Sint Lucas Guild in Leiden and, in addition to his career as a painter, also ran a tavern. There are many legends and tales about him, he was considered to be a funny journeyman, his best customer as an innkeeper, and a chaotic head of the family.
Steen's subjects were of a varied nature, the depictions in his detailed paintings range from Old Testament episodes to satirical social criticism and comic scenes of bourgeois life. His lively interpretation of turbulent gatherings of many characters even found its way into the Dutch language as a proverb: "een huishouden van Jan Steen" is characteristic of domestic disorder. Steen often gave the superficial impression of joy and cheerfulness, but on closer inspection, the gentle scolding for wrong behaviour is striking. Steen had a special preference for the pictorial representation of music and instruments, as in his self-portrait as a lute player. In "The upside-down world" from 1663, Steen humorously deals with old Dutch proverbs, which he has the characters play as in a play. Jan Steen died in 1679 and was buried in the family grave in Leiden. © Meisterdrucke
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.jpg "Girl with oysters by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, c.1655 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-101659).jpg "Feast in an Inn, detail of the central group, 1674 (see also 19042) by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Tobias and Sarah with the Archangel Raphael exorcising the demon Asmodeus, reassembled from two separated fragments (for restored version see 85367) by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Fantasy Interior with Jan Steen and the Family of Gerrit Schouten by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Village Wedding by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Erysichthon Sells His Daughter Mestra, 1660 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "A Village Wedding Feast with Revellers and a dancing Party, 1671 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Peasants and Soldiers Outside a Tavern - An Allegory of the Rape of the Netherlands by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "A Family Saying Grace by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Esther, Ahasuerus, and Haman, c. 1668. by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "A Physician and Patient of the Sixteenth Century by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Doctors Visit, ca 1665 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as ‘The Dancing Lesson’, 1660-79 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Sick Woman by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Sick old Man by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "A Peasant Family at Meal-time Grace before Meat, c1665, 1912. by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Merry Family, 1668 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Grace before Meat, 1660 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Self-Portrait playing the Lute, ca 1665 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Supper at Emmaus, c.1665-68 (oil on canvas, h 134cm × w 104 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-138658).jpg "Market Scene (panel) by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Fat Kitchen by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The quacksalver, 1679 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Ascagnes and Lucelle, The Music Lesson, 1667 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Tavern garden by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Dissolute Household, ca. 1663-64. by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Idlers by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Woman at her Toilet by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Mocking of Samson, ca 1675. by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord to a Young Man, 1659 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")