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'As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young'
Here, Steen has depicted the proverb ‘As the old sing, so pipe the young’, meaning that a bad example leads to bad conduct. The woman on the left with the open cleavage is having her glass topped up. On the right, the laughing father is teaching one of his children to smoke a pipe. This is Steen himself. Besides his gift for telling humorous stories, Steen was also a skilled painter who could sugg…
Creator
- Jan Steen
Type of item
- painting
Date
- 1670 - 1668
- 1668/1670
- 1668/1670
Medium
- canvas
- Canvas
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Identifier
- resource_document_mauritshuis_742
- 742
Format
- 162.5 cm
- 133.7 cm
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-08-02T11:48:29.351Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-02-28T08:45:41.077Z