Updated 30 May 2024
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Village Wedding
Materials and Techniques | oil on panel |
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Size(cm) | 59.5 x 83.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower right: J. Steen |
Credit Line | Purchased |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1976-0001 |
Jan Steen was a leading Dutch genre painter of the seventeenth century. He did more than fifty paintings on the theme of marriage including twenty depicting village weddings. The painting before us shows an outdoor scene of the arrival of the bride at the bridegroom's house amid a throng of onlookers. There are no fewer than fifty-one figures captured here in detail–their lively facial expressions and postures show the artist's skill at depicting idiosyncratic human emotion and behavior in a genre scene. (Source: Gallery label, July 2016)
Provenance
Auc. Paillet & Coclers, Paris, 26-27. 8. 1801, lot no. 44 (Catalogue des tableaux précieux des écoles flammande, hollandaise et allemande, aportés de la Flandre & de la Hollande par les Citoyens Paillet & Coclers); Auc. Montaleau, Paris, 19. 7. 1802, lot no. 145 (Catalogue des tableaux formant une réunion imposante d'articles, la plupart de première classe, par les plus grands maîtres des écoles d'Italie, de France, de Flandre et de Hollande...) ; Auc. Emler, Paris, 30. 10. 1809 (27. 12. 1809), lot no. 26 (Catalogue d'une précieux collection des tableaux, composant le Cabinet de M. Emler); Auc. Érard, Paris, 23. 4. 1832, lot no. 139 (Catalogue des tableaux italiens, flamands, hollandais et français, des anciennes écoles, qui composent la magnifique Galerie de feu M. le Chevalier Érard); Auc. Valpinçon, Hôtel drouot, Paris, 7-9. 3. 1881, lot. no. 27(Catalogue des tableaux anciens par Berkeyden, Jan Steen...dont la vente aura lieu après décès de M. Valpinçon); Private collection, Normandie, till 1975; Heim, Paris; Purchased by the NMWA, 1976.
Bibliography
- 1801
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