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Peasant wedding, Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1672

Peasant wedding, Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1672 — Peasant wedding

Painter: Jan Havicksz. Steen
Year: 1672
Medium: oil on panel

Description: In an inn, a peasant wedding is being celebrated. At a table on the right sits the bride surrounded by men, on the wall behind her hangs a tapestry. The groom sits to her left, emptying his glass. In the foreground, an old man dances to the music of musicians with violin and cello. To the left, a standing man and woman look on. On the floor are eggshells, bones, a plate and a spoon.

The Jan Havicksz. Steen Collection Catalog

Room 1

A couple drinking

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679
The Drunken Couple

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655 - 1665
Family scene

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679
The Sick Woman

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1663 - 1666
The Merry Family

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1668
Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as The Dancing Lesson

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679
Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655
Woman at her Toilet

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1655 - 1660
Man with a fiddle in bad company

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1670 - 1700
The quack

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1679
Woman scouring metalware

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1660
Baker’s Couple Arent Oostwaard and Catharina Keizerswaard

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1658

Room 2

The merry homecoming

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1670 - 1679
Peasant wedding

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1672
The quack

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1660
Interior with a Woman Feeding a Parrot, Known as ‘The Parrot Cage’

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1670
The Feast of St Nicholas

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1665 - 1668
Prince’s Day

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679
Self-portrait

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1670
The adoration of the shepherds

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679
Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two kinds of games'

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 - 1679
Erysichthon selling his daughter

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1660
Supper at Emmaus

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1665 - 1668
The bowlers

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1658 - 1700

Room 3

Inn Scene with Card Players

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1679
The singing fiddler

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1636 - 1679
Study of a Man Playing Skittles

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1655
Study of a Seated Man Smoking a Pipe

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1650 - 1655
Singing farmer

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1636 - 1679
Singing Fiddler

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1636 - 1679
Sketch of a man

Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1636 - 1679

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