DOI issue:
Nr. 153 (November 1909)
DOI article:Dutch pictures in the Hudson-Fulton exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19868#0052
Lent by Mr. Charles M. Schwab, New York, to the Metropolitan Museum Hudson-Fulton Exhibition
THE DRAINED CASK
BY JAN STEEN
[1626-1679]
A group of figures in a tavern. In the center the stooping figure of a
woman in a red dress wilh a blue jacket, who holds a bowl, while on the
right a man in a gray-blue cloak lilts a cask to drain its contents; at the
end of (he cask an old woman strikes it wilh her shoe. Seated at the table
at the left is a man with a red hat, holding a stein in his hand, and behind
him two men in green clothes, eagerly watching the wine as it flows slowly
from the cask. At the left a third man lights his pipe at the table. In the
background an open door through which is visible the evening sky. On a
wooden partition at the left of the background the inscription: "Tis
drouigh voor de macls Aef is doot den tap lopt op s(e)n ent de vcrbruyde
Jtrouf is vacts." Signed on the cask, /. Steen. Canvas: II., 34 inches;
W., 40 inches; Smith Suppl., No. 70; Wcstrheene, No. 95; Hofstcde de
Groot, No. 603. Collection of M. P. Caauw, Lcyden, 1768; collection of
£. Higginson, Salmarsh Castle, Kent, 1842; collection of the Marquis de
la Rochebousseau, Paris, 1873; collection of M. E. Martinet, Paris, 1806.
THE DRAINED CASK
BY JAN STEEN
[1626-1679]
A group of figures in a tavern. In the center the stooping figure of a
woman in a red dress wilh a blue jacket, who holds a bowl, while on the
right a man in a gray-blue cloak lilts a cask to drain its contents; at the
end of (he cask an old woman strikes it wilh her shoe. Seated at the table
at the left is a man with a red hat, holding a stein in his hand, and behind
him two men in green clothes, eagerly watching the wine as it flows slowly
from the cask. At the left a third man lights his pipe at the table. In the
background an open door through which is visible the evening sky. On a
wooden partition at the left of the background the inscription: "Tis
drouigh voor de macls Aef is doot den tap lopt op s(e)n ent de vcrbruyde
Jtrouf is vacts." Signed on the cask, /. Steen. Canvas: II., 34 inches;
W., 40 inches; Smith Suppl., No. 70; Wcstrheene, No. 95; Hofstcde de
Groot, No. 603. Collection of M. P. Caauw, Lcyden, 1768; collection of
£. Higginson, Salmarsh Castle, Kent, 1842; collection of the Marquis de
la Rochebousseau, Paris, 1873; collection of M. E. Martinet, Paris, 1806.