
Jan Steen (1626–1679)Dutch Golden Age · 1650s–1670sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
Dutch Golden Age 1626–1679
Jan Steen
A merry household, every corner telling.
Gone 347 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Delft Blue
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






