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"The Drawing Lesson": A Master Correcting a Pupil's Drawing
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Dutch, 1626–1679)
about 1665-66
Medium/Technique
Oil on panel
Dimensions
23.8 x 20.3 cm (9 3/8 x 8 in.)
Framed: 37.8 x 34.3 x 7 cm (14 7/8 x 13 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Framed: 37.8 x 34.3 x 7 cm (14 7/8 x 13 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession Number2023.488
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenancePossibly April 30, 1759, Johanna Tyler sale, Leth and Bosch, Amsterdam, lot 23, sold to Pieter Willemsz Calkoen (b. 1712 – d. 1780), Amsterdam [see note 1]; September 10, 1781, Calkoen sale, Schley, Amsterdam, lot 123, sold for fl. 500 to Faisch. Hans von der Mühll (b. 1846 – d. 1914), Basel [see note 2]. By 1919, Paul Cassirer (dealer; b. 1871 – d. 1926), Berlin [see note 3]. By 1926, Jan Willem Nienhuys (b. 1878 – d. 1946), Bloemendaal [see note 4]; by descent to his wife, Alida Versteegh Nienhuys (b. 1880 – d. 1980), Aerdenhout; to their son, Hendrik C. Nienhuys (b. 1912 – d. 2001), The Netherlands and Suffield, CT. 1998, sold by Noortman Master Paintings to Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, Naples, FL; 2023, gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 2023)
NOTES:
[1] According to the Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Kunstschatten uit Nederlandse Verzamelingen (Rotterdam, 1955), cat. no. 122.
[2] Museum Boymans 1955 (as above, n. 1).
[3] According to Karel Braun, Jan Steen (Rotterdam, 1980), cat. no. 255.
[4] According to the Stedelijk Museum, Jan Steen Tentoonstelling (Leiden, 1926), cat. no. 52.
NOTES:
[1] According to the Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, Kunstschatten uit Nederlandse Verzamelingen (Rotterdam, 1955), cat. no. 122.
[2] Museum Boymans 1955 (as above, n. 1).
[3] According to Karel Braun, Jan Steen (Rotterdam, 1980), cat. no. 255.
[4] According to the Stedelijk Museum, Jan Steen Tentoonstelling (Leiden, 1926), cat. no. 52.