Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1626-1679)

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Jan Steen : forty reproductions in photogravure of the artist's principal works / with a critical study by F. Schmidt Degener, and notes on the illustrations by H.E. van Gelder ; translated by G.J. Renier.

The comedians in the work of Jan Steen and his contemporaries / S.J. Gudlaugsson ; [translated from the Dutch by James Brockway ; introduction translated by Patricia Wardle].

A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

A monkey surgeon prepares to treat a monkey patient with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, ca. 1660.

A physician receiving a glass from a female servant while visiting a young female patient who is in bed. Coloured lithograph by P.H.L. Van der Meulen after J. Steen.

A medical practitioner examining the urine and taking the pulse of an elderly man. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Steen.

A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Havickz. Steen.

A surgeon removing "pierres de tête". Oil painting after Jan Steen.

A physician taking the pulse. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

A tooth-drawer holding up a tooth he has just extracted on stage to try and sell his skills; his two companions are treating a sick man. Etching after J. Steen (?).

A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.

An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, c. 1770, after J. Steen.

An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier, 1830, after J. Steen.

A young couple wait while a contract of marriage is drawn up and the servant waits to take the stop out of the barrel. Engraving by Jean-Charles Baquoy after Jan Steen.

Alchemists. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

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Jan Steen

Images from the collections

Images by Jan Steen

Works from the collections

A young couple wait while a contract of marriage is drawn up and the servant waits to take the stop out of the barrel. Engraving by Jean-Charles Baquoy after Jan Steen.

A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

Alchemists. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

Jan Steen

Images from the collections

Images by Jan Steen

Works from the collections

A young couple wait while a contract of marriage is drawn up and the servant waits to take the stop out of the barrel. Engraving by Jean-Charles Baquoy after Jan Steen.

A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

Alchemists. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

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