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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.
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.
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.jpg "Girl with oysters by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Merry Company on a Terrace by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Topsy-Turvy World by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Family Scene, 1660-79 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Tobias and Sarah with the Archangel Raphael exorcising the demon Asmodeus (restored version) by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-201768).jpg "Tobias and Sarah with the Archangel Raphael exorcising the demon Asmodeus, restored version reassembled from two separated fragments by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Happy Family by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A School for Boys and Girls by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Bean Feast, 1668 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Fantasy Interior with Jan Steen and the Family of Gerrit Schouten by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Young Woman Playing a Harpsichord to a Young Man by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Merry Family by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Sick Woman by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Village Wedding Feast with Revellers and a Dancing Party by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Dissolute Household by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "As the Old Sing, So Twitter the Young by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-101659).jpg "Feast in an Inn (detail) by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Woman at her Toilet by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Christening Feast, 1668 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The School Master, 1626-79 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Lean Kitchen by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as")
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.jpg "The Fat Kitchen by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Patient and the Doctor by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Festive Family Meal by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Interior with a Woman Feeding a Parrot, Known as")
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.jpg "Peasants and Soldiers Outside a Tavern - An Allegory of the Rape of the Netherlands by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Brewery of Jan Steen by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Egg Dance by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Saint Nicholas Feast by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Way You Hear It, Is the Way You Sing It by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Physician")
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.jpg "The Quacksalver by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Drunken Couple by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Erysichthon Sells His Daughter Mestra by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Peasant Family at Meal-time Grace before Meat by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait playing the Lute by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Woman at Her Toilet by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Fat Kitchen by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Peasant Family at Mealtime by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Harpsichord Lesson by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Girl Eating Oysters, c.1658-1660 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Bowling Game by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Baptism of Christ by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Wench by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Sick Old Man by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Bathsheba after the Bath by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Wedding Feast by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Patient and the Doctor by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Miser by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Children Teaching a Cat to Read by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Quacksalver, 1679 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Easy Come, Easy Go, 1661 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Physician and Patient of the Sixteenth Century by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Burgher of Delft and His Daughter, 1655 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Marriage at Cana by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The School, c. 1650 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Prince")
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.jpg "The Card Players by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Grace before Meat by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-66633).jpg "The Syrup Eater by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Woman at Her Toilette by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Family Saying Grace by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-301440).jpg "Bedroom scene by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Rhetoricians at a Window by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Tobias and Sarah Praying while Raphael Binds the Demon by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Feast of Saint Nicholas by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-103059).jpg "The Traveller")
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.jpg "Jan Steen by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Bad Company by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Peasant Wedding, 1672 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The River-Fish Market in The Hague by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Drinker by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Wrath of Ahasuerus by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Lovesick Maiden by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Mocking of Samson by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Wine is a Mocker by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Gallant Innkeeper by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Feast in an Inn by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Drawing Lesson by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Grace before Meat by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Proposal by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-67259).jpg "A Pedlar Selling Spectacles Outside a Cottage by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Satyr and the Peasant Family by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "A Goldsmith Melting Down a Woman")
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.jpg "The Adoration of the Shepherds by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-54735).jpg "Interior with a Painter and his Family by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Sick Woman by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Effects of Intemperance, c.1663-65 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Cheated Bridegroom by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Skittle Players Outside an Inn by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Easy come, easy go by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "Moses Striking the Rock by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
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.jpg "The Dancing Couple by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Card Players in an Interior by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "The Baker Arent Oostwaard and His Wife Catherina Keizerswaard, 1658 by Jan Havickszoon Steen")
.jpg "Woman Playing the Sistrum by Jan Havickszoon Steen")