Jan Steen

(Dutch, 1626–1679)

Room Paintings holds six paintings by Jan Steen, from The Met, the National Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. They date from 1660 to 1670. We file all of them under Dutch Golden Age. The most common subjects are music and dance, men and women. All of them suit a room in our lists, most often the dining room and home office.

Styles

Dutch Golden Age 6

Rooms

Museums

The 6 paintings

Merry Company on a Terrace, Jan Steen, ca. 1670, oil on canvas

Jan Steen Merry Company on a Terrace, ca. 1670 The Met

The Dissolute Household, Jan Steen, ca. 1663–64, oil on canvas

Jan Steen The Dissolute Household, ca. 1663–64 The Met

The Lovesick Maiden, Jan Steen, ca. 1660, oil on canvas

Jan Steen The Lovesick Maiden, ca. 1660 The Met

A woman playing a lute sits next to a table, on which a man perches and leans toward her in this vertical painting. Two people look on from the background. All the people have pale skin.

Jan Steen Ascagnes and Lucelle (The Music Lesson), 1667 National Gallery of Art

Painting of several light-skinned people gathered around a table in front of a gilded mirror, playing instruments. At left, seated next to a woman in an off-the-shoulder gown, a man in a plumed hat plays a lute.

Jan Steen The Family Concert, 1666 Art Institute of Chicago

More than a dozen light-skinned men, women, and children eat, drink, talk, and make music around a dancing couple under an arbor in this horizontal painting. Most of the people are dressed in muted tones of green, gray, and black.

Jan Steen The Dancing Couple, 1663 National Gallery of Art