Jan Steen 1626 – Leiden – 1679
Merry Company in an Inn
Signed lower left: JSteen
Oil on panel 40.5 x 54.7 cm.Provenance
London, David P. Sellar Collection
His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6 June 1889, lot 72
France, private collection, until 2019
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke des hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, 10 vols., Esslingen 1907-1928, 1 (1907), p. 149, cat. no. 616 (English edition, 1908, p. 161, cat. no. 616)
K. Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam 1980, p. 154, cat. no. A-421 (works known only from documents)