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      • zilver; zilveren sierlepel met decor van herberg, naar Jan Steen, anno 1927, meester B.W. van Eld
        Dec. 14, 2022

        zilver; zilveren sierlepel met decor van herberg, naar Jan Steen, anno 1927, meester B.W. van Eld

        Est: €50 - €75

        zilver; zilveren sierlepel met decor van herberg, naar Jan Steen, anno 1927, meester B.W. van Eldik, Zutpen en stel zilveren cakevorken, circa 1920, gewicht 115 gram

        Veilinghuis Van Spengen
      • Jan Steen (1938-2016)
        May. 25, 2022

        Jan Steen (1938-2016)

        Est: €1,800 - €2,500

        Beeld

        Richard ter Borg kunsthandel
      • Jan Steen (1938-2016)
        May. 25, 2022

        Jan Steen (1938-2016)

        Est: €1,500 - €2,500

        Beeld

        Richard ter Borg kunsthandel
      • Steen, Jan (Assen 1938) 'Mask',
        Jun. 15, 2021

        Steen, Jan (Assen 1938) 'Mask',

        Est: €140 - €190

        Steen, Jan (Assen 1938) "Mask", mixed media / mixed technique, l 75 x w 18 cm & nbsp; (prov; ex. Ongering collection).

        Veilinghuis Omnia
      • Steen, Jan (Assen 1938) 'Kijkdoos', 1982,
        Dec. 08, 2020

        Steen, Jan (Assen 1938) 'Kijkdoos', 1982,

        Est: €140 - €190

        Steen, Jan (Assen 1938) "Kijkdoos", 1982. Viewing box with figures in mixed media on the inside, h 10 x l 34 x w 18 cm.

        Veilinghuis Omnia
      • Jan Steen (1938-2016)
        Nov. 05, 2020

        Jan Steen (1938-2016)

        Est: €500 - €700

        Icarus

        Richard ter Borg kunsthandel
      • JAN STEEN, PEASANTS MAKING MERRY IN FRONT OF A TAVERN
        May. 11, 2013

        JAN STEEN, PEASANTS MAKING MERRY IN FRONT OF A TAVERN

        Est: €140,000 - €150,000

        Peasants have gathered to make merry in front of a tavern. In the centre a family rests on the ground, looking at the revel, the peasants dance, drink and smoke, some of them have ascended a boat that shakes dangerously, parting for a ride on the canal. Such representations of revelling peasants gave painters the opportunity to depict the lower classes in a humorous way whereas the higher art forms of history painting and portraiture represented persons of higher rank in an exemplary way. Thus the physiognomy of the peasants is bawdy, their moves clumsy, their conduct immoderate and dull. Jan Steen was a skillful storyteller with an unfailing repertoire of comic figures. Arnold Houbraken, in his famous biography of Jan Steen, praised the opulence of Steen´s inventions and the true-to-life figures, calling them "naturalistic", "ingenious", and "painted after life". Steen, he concluded, knew how to characterise persons; according to him, one could tell by the conduct of the figures, "who was the peasant and who the master". An interesting detail is the shop sign of the inn. It shows an elephant and allows one to draw a conclusion about the commissioner of the painting (Washington/Amsterdam 1996/1997, p. 196). The brewery "Den Oliphant" was situated in Haarlem and belonged to Gerrit Schouten, a wealthy brewer, who like Steen was a catholic and who was a patron of the artist. The close relationship between the brewer and the artist (who himself was the son of a brewer and during his time in Delft ran his own brewery) shows the "Self-portrait with Geritt Schouten and his Family" dated 1659/60 (fig. 1; The Nelson-Atkin Museum of Art, Kansas City). The decrepit building was surely not meant to represent Schouten´s brewery built in 1606 whose impressive building still stands at the Spaarne in Haalrem. But the reference to "Den Oliphant" shows who commissioned such genre paintings: wealthy bourgeois patrons who enjoyed Steen´s comic talent as a storyteller.

        Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
      • JAN STEEN, THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRIDE
        May. 11, 2013

        JAN STEEN, THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRIDE

        Est: €140,000 - €150,000

        In the Netherlands in the 17th century, it was a custom that after the wedding ceremony the bride went to the house of the bridegroom, or to an inn, in order to be received by him. Jan Steen depicts the meeting of the newly-weds in an interior of a tavern. The bridegroom stands at the door, at which the bride with her bridemaid stands. At first sight, the artist seems to depict the couple with sympathy, but he also makes clear that this is a wedding of peasants and the bridal pair as well as their guests belong to the lower classes. The tavern is a simple building, the decoration is modest and even the feast is missing. The bridegroom wears a colourful costume, but it is nevertheless simple and the black coat he wears like a gentleman seems improper for him. The costume of the bride is also simple and her bridemaid wears a so-called huik, a black hat with a funny decoration - this was a hat that at Steen´s time was already out of fashion. Steen in this painting depicts a timeless story: Peasants in vain trying to be elegant like the upper classes. Steen depicted the theme of the arrival of the bride in a number of paintings in the 1650s, some of them depicting bourgeois weddings. It was Pieter Bruegehl who had introduced the theme of the peasant´s weddings into Netherlandish art in the second half of the 16th century, partly in large-scale paintings. Steen apprehends this tradition, making it a comic depiction of feasting peasants.

        Kunsthaus Lempertz KG
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