Jan Steen (alternatively: Jan Stein)

 Person

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young, A family gathers around a crowded table, drinking, singing, and smoking.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0620
Scope and Contents Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0605; Public Notes: From the Mauritshuis Museum: Here, Steen has depicted the proverb ‘As the old sing, so pipe the young’, meaning that a bad example leads to bad conduct. The woman on the left with the open cleavage is having her glass topped up. On the right, the laughing father is teaching one of his children to smoke a pipe. This is Steen himself. Besides his gift for telling humorous stories, Steen was also a skilled painter who could...
Dates: 1930 - 1967

Dinner Scene, A group crowds around a dining table as food is served by a lady in an apron.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0605
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0590; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Distress at the Dinner Table, An angry nobleman rises up at the table, knocking over plates and accosts his servants.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0612
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0597; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Domestic Scene, A family (mother, father, two children and a baby) gather around a dinner table. A dog sniffs around on the floor nearby.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0621
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0606; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Family Dinners; Repas de famille, Many people of various ages are gathered in a crowded room, where some are drinking, playing music, breast-feeding, or singing.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0622
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0607; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Flirting Couple, In a domestic setting, a man pulls at a woman's dress and she wags her finger at him amiably.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0619
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0604; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Pied Piper, The folktale character Pied Piper is shown sneering, walking in a field, holding a mouse cage on a stick.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0623
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0608; Public Notes: Exhibited in New York City.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Portrait of a Man, A portrait of a man wearing a ruff and a dagger around his belt, with his hand rested on a table that holds several pairs of scissors.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0624
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0609; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

The Blindman, A little girl, followed by her mother, gives money to a blind beggar.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0616
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0601; Public Notes: From the Goudstikker collection, a collection of 1,300 works looted by Nazis, with many works still missing.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

The Cat's Medecine, Three little girls play with a cat, putting it in a scarf and trying to spoon-feed it.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0618
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0603; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

The Flight into Egypt, The Virgin Mary rides on a mule through a forest holding the infant Christ in her arms.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0602
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0587; Public Notes: This work is listed as from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer of Dutch paintings. The collection of around 1,300 paintings was looted by Nazis in WWII. Around 300 works from the collection were returned in 2006, with several hundred still missing.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

The Shrimp Merchant, A man holding a basket full of shrimp stands in a tavern where several people are gathered.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0613
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0598; Public Notes: From the Goudstikker collection, a collection of 1,300 that was looted by Nazis and many works from the collection are still missing.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

The Sick Woman, An ill woman sits back in a chair and another woman brings out a large medical syringe.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0617
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0602; Public Notes: From the Boijmans museum: The theme of lovesickness was extremely popular in both painting and the theatre in the seventeenth century. Suppressed desire led to a vague syndrome known as ‘hysteria’. The satire is played out with the arrival of the doctor, in this case an old spinster with an enema syringe.; From the Goudstikker collection.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

The Wedding, A crowded wedding scene outdoors with a musical with a musical ensemble and people watching above from a balcony.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0615
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0600; Public Notes: From the Goudstikker collection, a collection of 1,300 works looted by Nazis, with many works still missing.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Tobias and Sarah, Tobias and Sarah both kneel on the ground in a bedroom. Cherubim fly around the canopy bed and a dog sleeps on the floor.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0603
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0588; Public Notes: From the Goudstikker collection.; This work was in the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish art dealer of Dutch paintings. The collection of around 1,300 paintings was looted by Nazis in WWII. Around 300 works from the collection were returned in 2006, with several hundred still missing. The heir if Goudstikker sold this painting to the Bredius Museum upon its return.

Dates: 1930 - 1967

Visit from the Doctor, As an ill-seeming woman sits back in a chair, a woman pours liquid into another container and a man in a top hat writes something on paper.

 Item — Box 294: [Barcode: 30081049760816]
Identifier: spc-mss0088-s42-i0614
Scope and Contents

Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0599; Public Notes:

Dates: 1930 - 1967

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