Woman at her toilet

Steen, Jan (1626-1679)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1663
Height:
65.7 cm  (25 7/8 in.)
Width:
53.0 cm  (20 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel
School:
Dutch golden age

    Item location

  • Royal Collection Trust (United Kingdom)
    [Museum inv. no.: RCIN 404804]Has been on exhibit in the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace

Description

There is a striking vanitas still life in the foreground with a lute, a music book and a vine-intwined skull.

Iconclass

11R61
person(s) sitting among objects forming a 'Vanitas' still life
41A23
bedroom

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (with broken string)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Wikimedia Commons

Bibliographic references

Burgers, Jan W.J. The lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical culture in the Netherlands 1580-1670 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013) plate 31. ISBN 9789089645524. OCLC 861789689.

RIdIM record id

4389