File:Jan Steen school class with a sleeping schoolmaster, 1672.jpg
More actions
Original file (956 × 640 pixels, file size: 103 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
Jan Steen: A Riotous Schoolroom with a Snoozing Schoolmaster
  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
|
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
A Riotous Schoolroom with a Snoozing Schoolmaster |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | genre art | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster, oil on panel painting by Jan Steen, 1672 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1672 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on panel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 38.3 × 49.4 cm (15 × 19.4 in).; 15 1/8 x 19 1/2 in. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection | Private collection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
Frederik Eduward, Duc Day de Rivet, Leiden; His sale, Leiden, Pieter van den Eyk, 24 September 1764, lot 1, for 180 florins, to Caauw; Pieter Caauw, Leiden; His posthumous sale, Leiden, Luchtmans, 24 August 1768, lot 9, for 115 florins, to Schouman; Private collection, Amsterdam, from which sold, for 1600 florins, to Baron Johan Giijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (1776–1845), The Hague; Thence by inheritance to his heirs and sold along with 98 other paintings in 1846 (through John Chaplin, London) for £11.776, to a consortium of Humphrey St. John-Mildmay (1794–1853), Samuel Jones-Loyd (1796–1883), and Thomas Baring; Thomas Baring, M.P. (1799–1873), London; By whom bequeathed to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826–1904), London and Stratton Park, Hampshire; Thence by inheritance to his son, Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook (1850–1929), London and Stratton Park, Hampshire, until 1928 or 1929; P. van Leeuwen Boomkamp, Huizen; |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | sold at Sotheby's London on 6 July 2016 for 341.000 GBP; previously overpainted in three places in the foreground (boy urinating was "boy pouring ink" and girl wiping feces was a "girl whipping a child with a birch") | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | ArtDaily.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions |
http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l16033/lot.16.html |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 07:25, 2 May 2011 | | 956 × 640 (103 KB) | wikimediacommons>Wmpearl | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=''A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster'', oil on panel painting by Jan Steen, 1672}} |Source =ArtDaily.org |Author =Jan Steen (1626-1679 |Date =1672 |Permission = |other_versions = |
