Jan Steen (alternatively: Jan Stein)
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.
Dinner Scene, A group crowds around a dining table as food is served by a lady in an apron.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0590; Public Notes:
Distress at the Dinner Table, An angry nobleman rises up at the table, knocking over plates and accosts his servants.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0597; Public Notes:
Domestic Scene, A family (mother, father, two children and a baby) gather around a dinner table. A dog sniffs around on the floor nearby.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0606; Public Notes:
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.
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
Flirting Couple, In a domestic setting, a man pulls at a woman's dress and she wags her finger at him amiably.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0604; Public Notes:
Pied Piper, The folktale character Pied Piper is shown sneering, walking in a field, holding a mouse cage on a stick.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0608; Public Notes: Exhibited in New York City.
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.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0609; Public Notes:
Raucous Alley Scene, Several rowdy men sit outside drinking. One man in a cape holds up a sword to an old woman who is pushing him. A young girl lies on the floor with a look of despair and a basket sits beside her.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0591; Public Notes:
The Blindman, A little girl, followed by her mother, gives money to a blind beggar.
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.
The Cat's Medecine, Three little girls play with a cat, putting it in a scarf and trying to spoon-feed it.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0603; Public Notes:
The Flight into Egypt, The Virgin Mary rides on a mule through a forest holding the infant Christ in her arms.
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.
The Shrimp Merchant, A man holding a basket full of shrimp stands in a tavern where several people are gathered.
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.
The Sick Woman, An ill woman sits back in a chair and another woman brings out a large medical syringe.
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.
The Wedding, A crowded wedding scene outdoors with a musical with a musical ensemble and people watching above from a balcony.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.DUTC.0599; Public Notes:
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