File:Jan Steen school class with a sleeping schoolmaster, 1672.jpg

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Jan Steen: A Riotous Schoolroom with a Snoozing Schoolmaster  wikidata:Q29169694 reasonator:Q29169694
Artist
Jan Steen  (1625/1626–1679)  wikidata:Q205863 s:en:Author:Jan Havickszoon Steen
 
Jan Steen
Alternative names
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1625 or 1626
date QS:P,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1626-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
23 February 1679 (buried)
Location of birth/death Leiden Leiden
Work period 1648-1679
Work location
Leiden (1648-1649), The Hague (1649-1654), Delft (1654-1656), Warmond (1656-1660), Haarlem (1661-1670), Leiden (1670-1679)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q205863
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
A Riotous Schoolroom with a Snoozing Schoolmaster
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: A school class with a sleeping schoolmaster, oil on panel painting by Jan Steen, 1672
Date 1672
date QS:P571,+1672-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 38.3 × 49.4 cm (15 × 19.4 in).; 15 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history

Frederik Eduward, Duc Day de Rivet, Leiden; His sale, Leiden, Pieter van den Eyk, 24 September 1764, lot 1, for 180 florins, to Caauw; Pieter Caauw, Leiden; His posthumous sale, Leiden, Luchtmans, 24 August 1768, lot 9, for 115 florins, to Schouman; Private collection, Amsterdam, from which sold, for 1600 florins, to Baron Johan Giijsbert Verstolk van Soelen (1776–1845), The Hague; Thence by inheritance to his heirs and sold along with 98 other paintings in 1846 (through John Chaplin, London) for £11.776, to a consortium of Humphrey St. John-Mildmay (1794–1853), Samuel Jones-Loyd (1796–1883), and Thomas Baring; Thomas Baring, M.P. (1799–1873), London; By whom bequeathed to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826–1904), London and Stratton Park, Hampshire; Thence by inheritance to his son, Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook (1850–1929), London and Stratton Park, Hampshire, until 1928 or 1929;

P. van Leeuwen Boomkamp, Huizen;
Notes sold at Sotheby's London on 6 July 2016 for 341.000 GBP; previously overpainted in three places in the foreground (boy urinating was "boy pouring ink" and girl wiping feces was a "girl whipping a child with a birch")
References
Source/Photographer ArtDaily.org
Other versions http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l16033/lot.16.html

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