# Jan Steen

Dutch, 1626–1679; born in Leiden; died in Leiden

Steen was born in Leiden, the son of a brewer, and worked there and in The Hague, Delft and Haarlem; for a time he also ran a brewery and later an inn. He was one of the most inventive Dutch genre painters, filling crowded, comic scenes of households, taverns and feasts with moral warnings drawn from proverbs and the theatre. A disorderly home is still called “a Jan Steen household” in Dutch. He also painted portraits and biblical subjects.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

3 works in the collection.

- [The Dissolute Household](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-dissolute-household-met-437747), Jan Steen, ca. 1663–64. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [The Lovesick Maiden](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-lovesick-maiden-met-437748), Jan Steen, ca. 1660. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [Merry Company on a Terrace](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/merry-company-on-a-terrace-met-437749), Jan Steen, ca. 1670. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.