Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller

Washington D.C., Amsterdam, and New Haven, CT: National Gallery of Art; Rijksmuseum; Yale University Press, 1996. 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 x 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, April 28 to August 18, 1996 and at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, September 21, 1996 to January 12, 1997. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Jan Steen (1626-1679) is one of the most admired and quintessential seventeenth-century Dutch painters. His repertoire included genre, portraits, refined images of upper-class life, and complex, witty comic narratives. He also painted religious and mythological scenes that vary from quiet and intimate to grand and melodramatic. In his brushwork he displayed an astonishing range, from extremely fine to remarkably loose, even within a single painting." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Jan Steen, Player in His Own Paintings, by H. Perry Chapman; The Artist's Life, by Marten Jan Bok; Jan Steen, So Near and Yet So Far, by Eddy De Jongh; Steen's Comic Fictions, by Mariet Westermann; Steen's Artistic Evolution in the Context of Dutch Painting, by Lyckle De Vries; The Artist's Working Method, by Martin Bijl; Jan Steen, by from Arnold Houbraken's De groote schouburgh (1721), translated by Michael Hoyle; Catalogue, by H. Perry Chapman, Wouter Th. Kloek, Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.