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Jan Steen

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1626-1679)

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Images by Jan Steen

44 images from works
  • 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 writing a prescription for a sick young woman. 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.
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    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.

    Jan Steen | Date: 1700-1799 | Reference: 28397i
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    A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

    Jan Steen | Reference: 45954i
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    Alchemists. Oil painting after Jan Steen.

    Jan Steen | Reference: 47417i
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    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.

    Jan Steen | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 778482i
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    A monkey patient being treated by a monkey surgeon with a clyster, the latest French fashion accessory. Line engraving, c. 1660.

    | Reference: 17510i
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Related topics

Alchemists
Dogs
Physician and patient
Alcohol Drinking
Alchemy
Enema
Physicians - Clothing
Tooth Extraction
Work and family
Wives

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