Image Credits and Reference

Image Credits:

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter, The Battle Between Carnival and Lent, 1559, oil on panel, 118 x 164 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). In The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, page 153.

De Hooch, Pieter, Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting, 1663-1665, oil on canvas, 58.3 x 69.4 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

De Hooch, Pieter, The Visit, 1657, oil on wood, 26 ¾ x 23 in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

De Hooch, Pieter, The Young Mother, 1660, canvas, 95.2 x 102.5 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

Hals, Frans, Merrymakers at Shrovetide, 1616-1617, oil on canvas, 51 ¾ x 39 ¼ in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Landwehr, John, Title page of Silennus Alcibiadis, Sive, Proteus, 1618. In Silenus Alcibiadis, Sive Proteus: Vitӕ humanӕ ideam, Emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens by Jacob Cats. Netherlands: Middelburgi, 1618, front cover.

Lingelbach, Johannes, Dam Square with the New Town Hall Under Construction, 1656, oil on canvas, 122.5 x 206 cm. Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam.

Luiken, Jan, from Het Leerzaam Huisraad, 1711 (Harvard College Library, Boston). In The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, page 380-381.

Meskan, McKenna. Photo of In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met Exhibit, 2019.

Meskan, McKenna. Photo of The Dissolute Household, Merrymakers at Shrovetide, and Merry Company on a Terrace, 2019.

New Church on the Botermarkt, engraving (Bodleidan Library, Oxford) In The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, page 324-325.

Schmidt, P.P., Zeventiende-eeuwse kluchtboeken uit de Nederlanden (Netherlands: Hes & De Graaf Publishers BV, 1986), front cover.

Steen, Jan, Self-Portrait Playing the Lute, 1663-1665, oil on panel, 55.3 x 43.8 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Steen, Jan, The Dissolute Household, 1660-1665, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 89 cm. Apsley House, London.

Steen, Jan, The Dissolute Household, 1663-1664, oil on canvas, 42 ½ x 35 ½ in. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

References:

Chapman, H.P. “In Luxury Beware.” In Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller, edited by Guido Jansen, 53-69. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Chapman, H. Perry. "Jan Steen's Household Revisited." Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the

History of Art 20, no. 2/3 (1990): 183-96. doi:10.2307/3780742.

De Mare, Heidi. “Apprehensible Planes: the Paintings of Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch.” In At

Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space, Volume 1, edited by Irene Cieraad, 20-30.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.

Liedtke, Walter. “Dissolute Household.” In The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Kathleen Howard, Ellen Schultz, and Emily Walter, 89-92. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984.

Salomon, Nanette. Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeenth-century Dutch Painting.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Schama, Simon. “The Unruly Realm: Appetite and Restraint in Seventeenth Century Holland.” Daedalus, 108, no. 3, (1979):103- 123. URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024622

Westermann, Mariët. The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1997. See esp. chap. 3, “The Pictorial Poetics of Comedy,” and chap. 5, “Painter’s Wit.”

Zumthor, Paul. Daily Life in Rembrandt’s Holland. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.