About the Artwork
Gamblers Quarreling
ca. 1665
Jan Havicksz Steen
1625-1679
Dutch
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm) Framed: 36 1/2 × 44 1/4 × 2 3/4 inches (92.7 × 112.4 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.46
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower left: J Steen (the J and S form a monogram)
Inscribed, upper center, on chandelier: Prov cap 20 ver i
Provenance
September 8, 1773, sold by (de Winter . . . Yver, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 7;1773, purchased by van der Schley [for fl. 335];
May 10, 1781, sold by (Fullings, The Hague, Netherlands) auction B. Kley, lot 11;
1781, purchased by van der Schley [for fl. 255];
December 3, 1781, sold by (van der Schley, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction Jacob van de Velden, lot 65;
1781-1808, purchased by G. van der Pot;
June 6, 1808, sold by (van Nymegen . . .van Rijp, Rotterdam, Netherlands) auction G. van der Pot, lot 118;
1808, purchased by Louis Bernard Coclers [for fl. 500];
August 7, 1811, sold by (van der Schley . . . de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) auction L.B. Coclers, lot 70;
1811, purchased by de Vries [for fl. 365];
April 8 and following days, 1816, sold by (van der Schley . . . de Vries, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lot 103;
1816, purchased by Hulswit [for fl. 371];
Marquis de Montcalm (Montpellier);
May 4-5, 1849, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 109;
purchased by Norton [for pounds sterling 40-19-00];
1879, Major Corbett-Winder (London, England);
Collection Corbett-Winder (Vaynor Park, Berriew, Wales);
April 6, 1889, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Major Corbett-Winder, lot 66;
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. 4. London, 1833, no. 80.
Westrheene, J. van. Jan Steen: Etudes sur l'Art en Hollande. The Hague, 1856, p. 159, no. 363.
Winter Exhibition. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1879, cat. 57.
Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 67.
"The Scripps Old Masters." The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152; p. 151.
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 32, no. 58.
Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1. London, 1908, p. 207, no. 769; pp. 197-198, no. 778.
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 41-42, no. 58.
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 59, no. 55.
Loan Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1929, (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 215 (ill.).
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., John Herron Art Museum. Indianapolis, 1937, cat. 67.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 128, no. 215.
Dutch Masters from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Calvin College. Grand Rapids, 1976, p. 17, cat. 14.
Braun, K. Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen. Rotterdam, 1980, p. 118, no. 233 (ill.).
Westermann, Mariët. The Amusements of Jan Steen Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Zwolle, 1998, p. 281, (pl. 159).
Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 228-229.
You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2016, pp. 10, 12, (ill.); p. 134, cat. 1.
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Jan Havicksz Steen, Gamblers Quarreling, ca. 1665, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.46.
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