The quack
Sul dipinto
Con le parole del museo — in olandese
Een kwakzalver prijst staande achter een ton zijn geneesmiddelen aan. Tussen het publiek telt een vrouw geldstukken in haar hand, voor de ton staat een oude man met een gebroken arm. Aan een boom hangt een document met zegels.
Rijksmuseum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- SK-A-392
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Jan Havicksz. Steen
Tutta la vita1648
Joins the Leiden Guild of St Luke
Together with Gabriël Metsu and other painters Steen joined the recently founded Guild of St Luke in Leiden.
1649
Moves to The Hague; works with Jan van Goyen
From 1649 Steen lived in The Hague, where he first worked with the landscape painter Jan van Goyen, who became his father-in-law.
3 October 1649
Marries Margriet, daughter of Jan van Goyen
On 3 October 1649 Steen married Margriet, the daughter of Jan van Goyen; they had eight children.
1669–1670
The deaths of his wife, mother and father
By 1669 Steen's finances had improved, but in the spring his wife died, later that year his mother, and a year later his father.
1670
Returns to Leiden, to his parents' house
After his father's death Steen returned to Leiden and lived for the rest of his life in the house he inherited from his parents.
3 febbraio 1679
Died
