Children teaching a cat to dance

Steen, Jan (1626-1679)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1660-1679
Height:
68.5 cm  (27 in.)
Width:
59.0 cm  (23 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

Additional titles

The dancing lesson
Kinderen leren een poes dansen, bekend als 'De dansles'

    Item location

  • Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
    [Museum inv. no.: SK-A-718]

Description

A girl is playing a shawm, a boy is holding a cat in a dancing pose, a girl is laughing, and a boy watches the activity while a dog is barking. A lute hangs on the wall in the background.

Iconclass

43C734
child playing with animals
43C7432
children playing musical instruments

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]
Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Rijksmuseum image

Image URLs

image link 1
Rijksmuseum record

Bibliographic references

Catalogue of Paintings (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1960) 292, cat. no. 2244.

RIdIM record id

1507