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Woman Playing the Cittern
A woman looks at us intently, while plucking her sistrum. She is sitting in an empty room, so there are no distractions, and we cannot escape her gaze. Jan Steen is known mainly for his humorous domestic scenes, although he also painted various seductive women like this one. Strangely enough, Steen gave the woman a black headscarf, which you would expect to see an old crone wearing. The contrast b…
Creator
- Jan Steen
Type of item
- painting
Date
- 1662 - 1662
- 1662/1662
- 1662/1662
Medium
- panel
Creator
- Jan Steen
Type of item
- painting
Date
- 1662 - 1662
- 1662/1662
- 1662/1662
Medium
- panel
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_779
- 779
Format
- 31 cm
- 27.5 cm
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-08-02T11:48:29.975Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-02-28T08:45:41.077Z