"The Drawing Lesson": A Master Correcting a Pupil's Drawing

Jan Havicksz. Steen (Dutch, 1626–1679)

about 1665-66

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions23.8 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.)

Credit LinePromised gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession numberL-R 1386.2016

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ClassificationsPaintings

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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 Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA.

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.