A Party of Peasants

between 1648 and 1650

Jan Havicksz Steen Dutch, 1625-1679

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Title A Party of Peasants

Artwork Date between 1648 and 1650

Artist Jan Havicksz Steen

Life Dates 1625-1679

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 18 × 14 1/8 inches (45.7 × 35.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 1954

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2001.34

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Marks Marked, monogram, left foreground, in ligature: IS

Provenance

November 1816, sold by (Regnault Delalande C.P.: Le Normont, Paris, France)

(John Smith, London, England)

? Sir George Warrender, bart. (United Kingdom)

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (Novar)

June 1, 1878, cosigned to (Christie's, London, England)

purchased by (Goupil & Company, London, England)

? James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. William E. Scripps (Detroit/Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)

2001-present, found in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Probably to be identified with J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters,London, vol. 4, 1833, pp. 42-43, no. 129 (with description in reverse; cited in the collection of Sir George Warrender, bt.).

Probably to be identified with Westrheene, Jan Steen: Etudes sur l'Art en Hollande, The Hague, 1856, W 116.

Probably to be identified with C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1, London, 1908, p. 183, no. 696 (with description in reverse; cited as in the collection of Sir George Warrender, 1833, Sm.).

Hofstede de Groot, C., Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 1, Esslingen/Paris, 1907, p. , no. 614e; p. 171, no. 696 (annotation in RKD copy owned by HdG indicates as part of the early provenance London, John Smith; Novar, Collection J. H. Munro).

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 224-225 (entry by S. Donahue Kuretsky)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jan Havicksz Steen, A Party of Peasants, between 1648 and 1650, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William E. Scripps, 1954, 2001.34.