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    The Family Concert
    Jan Steen. The Family Concert, 1666. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000135

    The Family Concert

    by Jan Steen

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Sir Charles Bagot, Bart., by 1833 [according to Smith 1833]. Presumably Prince Anatole Demidoff, Villa San Donato, near Florence (died 1870); by descent to his nephew Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885); offered for sale Florence, Pillet, Le Roy and Mannheim, March 15-April 10, 1880, no. 1054, engraved, bought in; by descent to Princess Demidoff (formerly Princess Lise Troubetzkoi), 1885; sold through Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 1890, as part of a group of Dutch and Flemish paintings, many from the Demidoff collection, with funds advanced by Martin A. Ryerson and other trustees of the Art Institute [annual report 1891]; the cost of 1891.65 was reimbursed by Timothy B. Blackstone.

    Exhibition history

    Baltimore Museum of Art, Musical Instruments and Their Portrayal in Art, April 26–June 2, 1946, no. 35. Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors, December 1, 1967–January 7, 1968, no. 19. Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July 11–September 20, 2009, no cat.

    Publications

    John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 4 (London, 1833), pp. 59–60, no. 176. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Works of Old Dutch Masters and Other Pictures (Chicago, 1890), p. 29; reprinted (Chicago, 1892). “Chicago an Art Center,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 9, 1890, p. 1. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1901), p. 141, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1904), p. 147, no. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, Important Facts Regarding the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1905), pp. 6, 9, ill. Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs, vol. 6 (Boston, 1905), p. 293. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago, 1907), p. 158, no. 4. C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century based on the Work of John Smith, vol. 1 (London, 1907), p. 115, no. 442. Art Institute of Chicago, The Collections Illustrated: With a Historical Sketch and Description of the Museum (Chicago, 1910), p. 22. Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 18, no. 4. Eduard Trautscholdt, “Steen, Jan,” in Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 31 (Leipzig, 1931), p. 512. Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51, 4 (1952), p. 59. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 187, 440, ill. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 261, 286, ill; reprinted (London, 1977) and (London, 1987). Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1986), p. 48, 53, ill. Walter Liedtke, “Toward a History of Dutch Genre Painting II: The South Holland Tradition,” in Roland E. Fleischer and Susan Scott Munshower, eds, The Age of Rembrandt: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting (University Park, PA, 1988), p. 128, ill. Walter Liedtke, “The Collectors and Their Ideals,” in Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America, exh. cat. (The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1990), p. 35. Jon Margolis, “Off-the-Wall Lessons in History: One Man’s Unorthodox View of the Art Institute of Chicago,” Chicago Tribune Magazine (September 17, 1995), p. 15, ill. M. Therese Southgate, The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association (St. Louis, 1997), pp. 6–7, ill. Mariët Westermann, The Amusements of Jan Seen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Zwolle, 1997), p. 246 n. 48. Dieter Beaujean, Bilder in Bildern: Studien zur niederländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts (Weimar, 2001), p. 137 n. 452. Celia Hilliard, “‘The Prime Mover”: Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 36, 1 (2010), p. 43. Jan W.J. Burgers, The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical Culture in the Netherlands 1580-1670 (Amsterdam 2013), p. 203, pl. 26.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jan Steen (Dutch, 1626–1679)
    Date
    1666
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    86.6 × 101 cm (34 1/8 × 39 3/4 in.); Framed: 101.6 × 115.6 × 5.1 cm (40 × 45 1/2 × 2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Holland
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Gift of Timothy B. Blackstone
    Accession no.
    1891.65

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