Jan Steen

Leiden 1626 - 1679

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The Meal of Eggs.

Oil on Canvas, 69.5 x 52 cm.
Signed center right: Jsteen

ENQUIRIES

Provenance

Sale M.A. Kleinenbergh, Leiden, 19 July 1841, no. 214 (fl 803, Nieuwenhuys ; or Burton according to Smith ;
Collection Nieuwenhuys, London (cf Hofstede de Groot);
Collection Burton, London (cf Sedelmeyer);
Collection T.H. Ward, London (cf Sedelmeyer);
Sedelmeyer Gallery, 1905, no. 34 ;
Collection Maurice Kann, Paris ;
His sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 9 June 1911, no. 72 ;
Purchased by F. Muller ;
Collection Miss M.C. van den Honert, Amsterdam, since 5 April 1927;
On loan to the Mauritshuis from 1935 until after the second World War :
Private Collection, Hessen, Germany ;
Sale Döbritz, Frankfort, 17 May 2025, lot 235.

Literature

J. Smith, Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, Vol. 9, London, 1842, no. 63 p.498 ;
T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen, Etude sur l’art en Hollande, The Hague 1856, p. 163 no. 393 ;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the most eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1, London, 1908, no. 674 p. 176 ;
K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, no. B-175 p.173, reproduced.

Exhibition

Cinq siècles d’art, Exposition de Bruxelles, 1935.