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Jan Steen (Leiden 1626-1679) A wedding feast image 1
Jan Steen (Leiden 1626-1679) A wedding feast image 2
Lot 25

Jan Steen
(Leiden 1626-1679)
A wedding feast

Amended
17 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £42,750 inc. premium

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Jan Steen (Leiden 1626-1679)

A wedding feast
signed 'JStEEn' (lower right, the J and S in ligature)
oil on panel
35.3 x 50.3cm (13 7/8 x 19 13/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Collection of John Newington Hughes, 1829, no. 83
Friedrich Schwarz, by whom sold in 1913 to
Dr Leon Lilienfeld, Vienna, and by descent to the present owner

Literature
T. van Westrheene, Jan Steen: Étude sur l'Art en Hollande, The Hague, 1856, p. 126, no. 120
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1829, pp. 44/5, no. 135
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1907, vol. I, p. 129, no. 484
G. Glück, Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Dr. Leon Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917, no. 68

Saleroom notices

Please note the additional literature for this lot: K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam, 1980, B-136 (as a rejected work) We are grateful to Wouter Kloek for confirming the attribution to Jan Steen and suggesting date of circa 1654, upon inspection of colour photographs. Please also note that the signature is strengthened.

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