Jan Steen

Illustration number 1001171985
Dimensions: 634x650 pixels
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Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1658-1670 (1658 - 1670)

c. 1658-1670 (E. Schavemaker); c. 1663 (Braun 1980); c. 1665-1668 (Chapman e.a. 1996)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: De strenge schoolmeester
English title: The strict schoolmaster
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: genre, knee-length portrait, interior view, old man, boy, girl, schoolmaster, classroom, crying, writing (activity), punishment, slice, background view from inside to outside, curtain, book, pen, inkwell, hat, paper (sheet), ewer (vessel), earthenware

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

inspired by
Gerard Dou, De schoolmeester
Steen adopted the subject of an old schoolmaster holding his stick ready whilst looking at a writing boy, as well as the composition and the use of knee-length figures. (Chapman et al. 1996, p. 214)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection J.R. West, Stratford-upon-Avon
1833 - reported (Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928)
private collection Robert Koeber, Harburg (Hamburg)
1925 - reported
Private collection
1996 - reported

Auction(s)

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Gemälde alter Meister aus berliner Besitz Akademie der Künste Berlin , Berlin , 1925-07 - 1925-08 , no. 368
Jan Steen tentoonstelling in het stedelijk museum "De Lakenhal" te Leiden, 16 juni-31 augustus 1926 Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal , Leiden (city) , 1926-06-16 - 1926-08-31 , no. 49

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Creation date: 2014-11-24; Last modified date: 2022-08-08

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