Jan Steen - Leiden, Netherlands
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naj16
N 52° 09.088 E 004° 28.657
31U E 601093 N 5778914
Painted electricity substation - Jan Steen.
Waymark Code: WMMYP2
Location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Date Posted: 11/25/2014
Views: 5
Jan Steen, (born c. 1626, Leiden, Neth.— died Feb. 3, 1679, Leiden), Dutch painter, ranked immediately after Rembrandt and Hals as a painter of everyday scenes. Steen is unique among leading 17th-century Dutch painters for his humour; he has often been compared to the French comic playwright Molière, his contemporary, and indeed both men treated life as a vast comedy of manners. Some of the artist’s biblical and classical paintings such as “Anthony and Cleopatra” (Kunstsammlung der Universität, Göttingen, Ger.) may have been inspired by the contemporary stage. His portraits of rhetoricians (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Worcester Art Museum, Mass.) attest to his interest in these groups of amateur actors.
City: Leiden
Location Name: Substation
Media: oil paint on brich stone
Artist: Not listed
Date: Not listed
Relevant Web Site: Not listed
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