About the Artwork
Gamblers Quarreling
ca. 1665
Jan Havicksz Steen
1625-1679
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm) Framed: 36 1/2 × 44 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (92.7 × 112.4 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.46
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, lower left: J Steen (the J and S form a monogram)
Inscribed, upper center, on chandelier: Prov cap 20 ver i
Provenance
September 8, 1773, sold by (de Winter . . . Yver, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 7
1773, purchased by van der Schley [for fl. 335]
May 10, 1781, sold by (Fullings, The Hague, Netherlands) auction B. Kley, lot 11
1781, purchased by van der Schley [for fl. 255]
December 3, 1781, sold by (van der Schley, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction Jacob van de Velden, lot 65
1781-1808, purchased by G. van der Pot
June 6, 1808, sold by (van Nymegen . . .van Rijp, Rotterdam, Netherlands) auction G. van der Pot, lot 118
1808, purchased by Louis Bernard Coclers [for fl. 500]
August 7, 1811, sold by (van der Schley . . . de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction L.B. Coclers, lot 70
1811, purchased by de Vries [for fl. 365]
April 8 and following days, 1816, sold by (van der Schley . . . de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 103
1816, purchased by Hulswit [for fl. 371]
Marquis de Montcalm (Montpellier)
May 4-5, 1849, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 109
purchased by Norton [for pounds sterling 40-19-00]
1879, Major Corbett-Winder (London, England)
Collection Corbett-Winder (Vaynor Park, Berriew, Wales)
April 6, 1889, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Major Corbett-Winder, lot 66
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. 4. London, 1833, no. 80.
Westrheene, J. van. Jan Steen: Etudes sur l'Art en Hollande. The Hague, 1856, p. 159, no. 363.
Winter Exhibition. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1879, cat. 57.
Detroit Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 67.
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 151.
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 32, no. 58.
Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol.1. London, 1908, p. 207, no. 769; pp. 197-198, no. 778.
Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 41-42, no. 58.
Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 59, no. 55.
Loan Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1929 (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 215 (ill.).
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Museum. Indianapolis, 1937, cat. 67.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 128, no. 215.
Dutch Masters from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Calvin College. Grand Rapids, 1976, p. 17, cat. 14.
Braun, K. Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen. Rotterdam, 1980, p. 118, no. 233 (ill.).
Westermann, Mariët. The Amusements of Jan Steen Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Zwolle, 1998, p. 281, pl. 159.
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 228-229.
You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 12; 10 (ill.); 134, cat. 1.
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Jan Havicksz Steen, Gamblers Quarreling, ca. 1665, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.46.
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