STEEN, Jan
(b. 1626, Leiden, d. 1679, Leiden)

The Marriage

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Oil on canvas, 131 x 172 cm
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

The feel for an entertaining story, the ability to combine the humourous and the serious, and a keen observation of everyday life made Steen one of the most outstanding representatives of 17th-century Dutch genre painting.