# The Lovesick Maiden, in Jan Steen

Jan Steen painted this in about 1660, aged about 29. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A pale young woman sits slumped and listless, attended by a doctor, while others look on.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1660
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 34 x 39 in. (86.4 x 99.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 46.13.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jan Steen](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jan-steen), Dutch, 1626–1679

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.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Jan Steen's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-jan-steen?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=750) (94 works)
- [17th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-netherlands?hang=750) (91 works)

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