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        <h1 class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen (Havicksz) (1626-1679)</h1>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Steen’s father was a brewer in Leiden. Jan Steen showed talent in drawing as a child and got formal training at home in art and Latin. At age twenty, Steen began studying genre painting with Adraen an Ostade at Leiden University. Jan Steen only studied there for a year, as did Rembrandt. Then Steen joined the Leiden painter’s guild. When twenty-three years old, Jan Steen married the daughter of the prominent landscape painter Jan van Goyen, who may have been one of his teachers. Shortly thereafter, Steen’s father opened a new brewery in Delft so his son could support his new family. This venture was an abject failure. Steen was reduced to maintaining a tavern in his home.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen is most well-known for his genre scenes of the interior of bars, brothels, and residences. He was so identified with this sort of messy exuberance that the Dutch call it “a Jan Steen household.” Steen also painted mythological, religious scenes and a few portraits.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/steen/jansteen1.jpg" alt="Steen, Jan Steen, " girl="" offering="" oysters="" oil="" n="" panel="" x="" cm="" royal="" cabinet="" of="" paintings="" the="" hague="" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen, “Girl Offering Oysters,” (ca. 1658-1660), oil n panel, 20.5 x 14.5 cm; Royal Cabinet of Paintings, The Hague</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Steen lived in several cities in the Netherlands and absorbed the predominant artistic style in each. Many scholars believe Jan Steen’s best work was done in Haarlem between 1661 and 1670. After his father’s death in 1670, Steen moved his family back to his ancestral home in Leiden.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/steen/jansteen2forAEminibio.jpg" alt="Steen, Jan Steen, " village="" festival="" with="" the="" ship="" of="" saint="" rijn="" uijt="" oil="" on="" panel="" x="" private="" collection="" united="" kingdom.="" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen, “Village Festival with the Ship of Saint Rijn Uijt,” (ca. 1653), oil on panel, 42.5 x 66.5, private collection, United Kingdom.</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Authentication of works by Steen can be difficult. Steen rarely dated pieces. In the 1700s, Steen’s work became extremely fashionable and his signature was forged on many paintings he did not create but which emulate his style and subject matter.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/steen/JanSteenimage3%20for%20minibioAE.jpg" alt="Steen, Jan Steen, " bathsheba="" receiving="" david="" letter="" inscribed="" on="" the="" letter:="" oil="" panel="" x="" private="" collection="" netherlands.="" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen, “Bathsheba receiving David’s Letter,” (ca. 1659), inscribed on the letter: “alder/Schonte/Bersabé/omdat,” Oil on panel, 41.5 x 33, private collection, the Netherlands.</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In “Bathsheba Receiving David’s Letter,” Steen is skillfully able to make an Old Testament story accessible to a contemporary audience. Unlike most of his contemporaries, who depicted Bathsheba in her bath after getting the letter, Steen shows us Bathsheba’s private world by letting us read the letter. The old woman on the right has just delivered it.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">This painting has a particularly well-documented provenance and once belonged to the royal family of Liechtenstein.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/steen/image4%20JanSteen%20minibio%20for%20AE%20website.jpg" alt="Steen, Jan Steen, " easy="" come="" go="" inscribed="" and="" dated="" on="" the="" mantelpiece:="" gewonne="" soo="" verteert="" jsteen="" x="" cm="" museum="" boymans-van="" beuningen="" rotterdam="" netherlands.="" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen, “Easy come, easy go,” (1661), inscribed and dated on the mantelpiece: “Soo gewonne Soo verteert 16 JSteen 61,” 79 x 104 cm; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">The first biography of Steen was written in 1721 by Arnold Houbraken. Houbraken is thought to have come up with the expression “a Jan Steen household” [bedorven huishouwen] Jan Steen often depicted himself as a fool in his paintings. For instance, in “Easy come, easy go,” Steen is the incompetent drunk at the mercy of Fortune. According to Houbraken, “Steen’s paintings are like his way of life, and his way of life like his paintings.”</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Most of Steen’s paintings have some moralizing element. In “Easy come, easy go,” for instance, the wine is being watered down by the boy in the foreground. This tells us that wealth can be easily lost. There is a figure of Fortuna on the mantelpiece. A backgammon game is being played in the background, another indication that life is a game of chance.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_l-z/steen/img484.jpg" alt="Steen, Jan Steen, " in="" luxury="" beware="" inscribed="" lower="" right="" weelde="" siet="" toe="" x="" cm="" kunsthistorisches="" museum="" gem="" vienna="" austria.="" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Jan Steen, “In Luxury Beware,” (1663), inscribed lower right “In weelde Siet Toe,” 105 x 145 cm; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, Austria.</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In this boisterous scene, even the dog is misbehaving, having gotten up on the table and eating a pie. A pig and monkey, unlikely to live in a normal house, are in residence. The young woman in the center is a prostitute, judging by her dress and pose. The old couple in the corner try to restore order by reading the Bible—it is futile. The inscription on the small blackboard at the bottom right is “in weelde siet toe” or beware of luxury. Jan Steen was unique in his use of such proverbs in paintings.</p>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Are you still wondering about that ancient Dutch painting you own? We are the experts in authenticating paintings by Jan Steen. Please <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/contact/contact1.php">contact</a> us at <a href="mailto:info@artexpertswebsite.com">info@artexpertswebsite.com</a>.</p>
      
      
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