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Jan Steen: The prayer before the meal  wikidata:Q29169570 reasonator:Q29169570
Artist
Jan Steen  (1625/1626–1679)  wikidata:Q205863 s:en:Author:Jan Havickszoon Steen
 
Jan Steen
Alternative names
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1625 or 1626
date QS:P,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1626-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 23 February 1679 (buried)
Location of birth/death Leiden Leiden
Work period 1648-1679
Work location
Leiden (1648-1649), The Hague (1649-1654), Delft (1654-1656), Warmond (1656-1660), Haarlem (1661-1670), Leiden (1670-1679)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q205863
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Prayer Before the Meal
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
The Prayer Before the Meal by Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660
Date 1660
date QS:P571,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 52.7 cm (20.7 in); width: 44.5 cm (17.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,52.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,44.5U174728
.; 20 1/4 by 17 1/2 in.
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history

Johannes Enschedé, printer, Haarlem; His deceased sale, Haarlem, Jelgersma/Van der Vinne, 30 May 1786, lot 22; Anonymous sale, Alkmaar, Hartemink van Horstok, 17 November 1788, lot 1, for 700 Florins to Du Tour; B. Ocke, Curate of the new church of Sint Lodewijk, Leiden; His deceased sale, Leiden, 21 April 1817, lot 128, (described as on canvas), for 440 Florins to Ocke (presumably bought in); Anonymous sale (Engelberts and others), Amsterdam, Van der Schley/ Roos/ De Vries, 25 August 1817, lot 91, (described as on canvas), for 275 Florins to auctioneer De Vries; C.E.E. Baron Collot d’Escury, Leeuwarden; His deceased sale, Leeuwarden, Proost, 17-18 October 1831, lot 33 (with dimensions 22 by 18 1/2 in.); Mr. Chaplin, London, 1831, by whom imported from The Netherlands (according to Smith, who valued it at 250 Guineas); James Morrison (d.1857), 57 Upper Harley Street, London, by 1848; Probably his widow, Mary Anne Morrison (d. 1887); Their son, Charles Morrison (d.1909), Basildon Park, Berks, (Picture no. 34, according to a label on the reverse of the frame), by 1894; By inheritance to his brother, Walter Morrison, Basildon Park; Who settled the inheritance on his nephew Col. James Archibald Morrison, Basildon Park (until sold in 1929), 1910; By inheritance to his daughter Mary Morrison, 1934, who had married in 1924 John Henry Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; By inheritance to Geoffrey Mark Dent-Brocklehurst, Sudeley Castle;

Thence by inheritance at Sudeley Castle. Sold Sotheby's London 5 December 2012 for 5.641.250 GBP
Inscriptions

signed and dated on the placard on the back wall below the inscription: JAN STEEN 1660 inscribed on the placard:- Drie dingen wensch ick en niet meer. Voor al te minnen Godt den heer, Maar wens om tgeen de wijste badt Een eerlyck leven op dit dal-

In deze drie bestaet het al.
References
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l12036/lot.9.html

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current04:58, 30 August 2014Thumbnail for version as of 04:58, 30 August 20141,715 × 2,000 (1.24 MB)PKMHigher res image from Sotheby's.
21:39, 10 November 2012Thumbnail for version as of 21:39, 10 November 2012740 × 918 (143 KB)Wmpearl{{Information |Description=''The Prayer Before the Meal'' by Jan Havicksz. Steen, 1660 |Source=Sotheby's |Date=1660 |Author=Jan Havicksz. Steen |Permission= |other_versions= }} Category:Praying in art Category:Genre paintings by Jan Steen

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