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Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller

Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller

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Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller

by H. Perry Chapman; Wouter Th. Kloek; Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr

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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Softcover. VG (owner's mark inside). Burgundy wraps with color pictorial front. 272 pp. 49 large color, numerous smaller bw plates. Exhibition at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Contents as follows: Jan Steen, Player in His Own Paintings / H. Perry Chapman -- The Artist's Life / Marten Jan Bok -- Jan Steen, So Near and Yet So Far / Eddy De Jongh -- Steen's Comic Fictions / Mariët Westermann -- Steen's Artistic Evolution in the Context of Dutch Painting / Lyckle De Vries -- The Artist's Working Method / Martin Bijl -- Jan Steen / from Arnold Houbraken's De groote schouburgh (1721), translated by Michael Hoyle -- Catalogue / H. Perry Chapman, Wouter Th. Kloek, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Jan Steen (1626-1679) is one of the most admired and quintessential seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His repertoire included genre, portraits, refined images of upper-class life, and complex, witty comic narratives. He also painted religious and mythological scenes that vary from quiet and intimate to grand and melodramatic. In his brushwork he displayed an astonishing range, from extremely fine to remarkably loose, even within a single painting. Written by H. Perry Chapman, Wouter Th. Kloek, and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., with contributions by other noted art historians, this book draws on the most recent scholarship and archival research to reassess Steen within the context of seventeenth-century Netherlandish artistic, literary, and cultural movements. A translation of Arnold Houbraken's biography of Steen, written in the eighteenth century, is included, as well as a biographical essay that uses numerous contemporary sources to present the most comprehensive profile on Steen yet published. Other essays discuss Steen's relationship to the theater and to other Dutch painters of the time, his critical reception, and his varied self-portrayals. Fifty of Steen's paintings, chosen to demonstrate his consummate skill as both painter and storyteller, are catalogued in detail. This lavishly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition of the works of Jan Steen, coorganized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Title
Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller
Author
H. Perry Chapman; Wouter Th. Kloek; Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - VG (owner's mark inside)
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Paperback
ISBN 10
0894682237
ISBN 13
9780894682230
Publisher
Yale University Press
Place of Publication
New Haven, CT
Date Published
1996
Keywords
Dutch; 17th century ; Steen, Jan ; 17th century ;

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