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The Quack Doctor - Jan Steen
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A satirical genre painting by Jan Steen depicting a travelling quack doctor performing a tooth extraction at a village fair.
Jan Steen, a master of Dutch Golden Age genre painting, frequently turned his attention to the absurdities of daily life. In this work, he depicts a travelling charlatan performing a tooth extraction on a patient. The scene is set upon a makeshift wooden stage, a common sight at village fairs during the seventeenth century. The doctor, dressed in a long black coat and hat, holds a tooth aloft as if to prove his success, while the patient grimaces in pain.
Steen populates the composition with a variety of figures that reflect the social hierarchy of the time. To the right, a woman assists the doctor, while a man in a wheelbarrow appears to be recovering from his own procedure. The crowd gathered around the stage includes children, peasants, and a rider on a donkey, all observing the spectacle with varying degrees of curiosity and scepticism. A small monkey sits atop a post, a traditional symbol of folly and deceit in Dutch art, which reinforces the satirical nature of the scene.
The painting is characterised by its narrative density and the artist's ability to capture human expression. Steen uses a warm, earthy palette to ground the scene in a realistic setting, while the lighting directs the viewer towards the central action on the stage. The inclusion of everyday objects, such as the basket of eggs and the medical paraphernalia on the table, adds to the authenticity of the depiction. This work is typical of Steen's approach, which often combined humour with a moralising undertone, inviting the viewer to observe the gullibility of the crowd and the manipulative tactics of the itinerant healer. The composition is balanced, with the large tree providing a canopy that unites the disparate elements of the fairground scene.
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- Museum-grade giclée printing for rich, fade-resistant colour
- Archival matte fine-art paper, FSC-certified
- Multiple sizes and framing options available
- Frames in black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
- Frames: black, natural wood, dark wood or white
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The Quack Doctor - Jan Steen
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Från £28.00 GBP
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Från £28.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Jan Steen
Steen ran a brewery and a tavern, painted roughly eight hundred pictures, fathered eight children and died in debt. The Dutch phrase "a Jan Steen household" still describes a home in cheerful disarray, which is exactly what his paintings depict: noisy domestic scenes of feasts, drinking parties, quack doctors and misbehaving children, painted with moral commentary buried under layers of visual comedy.
He was born in Leiden around 1626 into a well-to-do Catholic family of brewers who ran the tavern The Red Halbert. In 1648 he and Gabriel Metsu co-founded the painters' Guild of Saint Luke in Leiden. He studied under Jan van Goyen, the landscape painter, and married Van Goyen's daughter Margriet in 1649. His father leased him a brewery in Delft from 1654 to 1657; when the art market collapsed in the Year of Disaster (1672), he opened a tavern in Leiden.
His painting drew heavily on the Rhetoricians, the amateur theatrical guilds whose public performances combined moralising with bawdy comedy. Steen treated his own family as a cast: he used relatives as models and painted himself repeatedly with no trace of vanity, often as the fool or the drunk. The Feast of Saint Nicholas and Girl Eating Oysters are among his most recognisable images, each balancing precise observation of Dutch domestic life with a theatrical sense of timing.
Despite enormous productivity he struggled financially throughout his career. His second wife was left with heavy debts and a large family after his death in Leiden in 1679, at fifty-two. Collectors valued him from early on, but the prices came after his lifetime.
He was born in Leiden around 1626 into a well-to-do Catholic family of brewers who ran the tavern The Red Halbert. In 1648 he and Gabriel Metsu co-founded the painters' Guild of Saint Luke in Leiden. He studied under Jan van Goyen, the landscape painter, and married Van Goyen's daughter Margriet in 1649. His father leased him a brewery in Delft from 1654 to 1657; when the art market collapsed in the Year of Disaster (1672), he opened a tavern in Leiden.
His painting drew heavily on the Rhetoricians, the amateur theatrical guilds whose public performances combined moralising with bawdy comedy. Steen treated his own family as a cast: he used relatives as models and painted himself repeatedly with no trace of vanity, often as the fool or the drunk. The Feast of Saint Nicholas and Girl Eating Oysters are among his most recognisable images, each balancing precise observation of Dutch domestic life with a theatrical sense of timing.
Despite enormous productivity he struggled financially throughout his career. His second wife was left with heavy debts and a large family after his death in Leiden in 1679, at fifty-two. Collectors valued him from early on, but the prices came after his lifetime.
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