File:Jan Steen 015.jpg

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Summary

Jan Steen: Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two kinds of games'

Artist



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	: Q205863 VIAF: 15041897 ISNI: 0000000108727042 ULAN: 500115664 LCCN: n79021430 WGA: s/steen WorldCat

Title

Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as ‘The Double Game’

Object type

painting

Genre

genre art

Date

between 1660 and 1679

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 63 cm (24.8 in); width: 69.5 cm (27.3 in)

Collection

Rijksmuseum

	Native name	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
	Location	Amsterdam
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E
	Established	1800
	Website	rijksmuseum.nl
	Authority file	: Q190804 VIAF: 159624082 ISNI: 0000000121961335 ULAN: 500246547 LCCN: n79007489 NLA: 36126463 WorldCat

Accession number

SK-A-3347

Object history

from 1925 until 1940: D.A.J. Kessler-Hülsmann, Category:Kapelle-op-den-Bos
1940: given to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, by Mr. and Mrs. D.A.J. Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle-op-den-Bos

Exhibition history

Low life in the Golden Age, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, 1 March 2007–5 June 2007, no catalog known.

The Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting, National Art Center, Tokyo, 26 September 2007–17 December 2007.

Inscriptions

Signature bottom right:

JSteen

References

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Herberginterieur met een oude man, die zich amuseert met de waardin, en triktrakspelers, bekend als ‘Tweeërlei spel’, 1660-1679.

RKDimages, Art-work number 6379, as The double game, circa 1667 (1666-1668) Web Gallery of Art, as In the Tavern, 1660s.

Source/Photographer

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5494

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:51, 21 March 2016	3,126 × 2,778 (1.27 MB)	Fæ
	20:33, 27 August 2014	3,126 × 2,778 (5.7 MB)	Jan Arkesteijn	higher resolution
	08:25, 15 March 2013	1,934 × 1,721 (820 KB)	Vincent Steenberg	higher resolution
	22:31, 12 July 2009	846 × 750 (109 KB)	Vincent Steenberg	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=''Interior of an inn'' [shortened title].}} {{nl\|1=''Herberginterieur'' [verkorte titel].}} \|Source=[http://www.wga.hu/html/s/steen/page2/tavern.html www.wga.hu] \|Author=Jan Steen (1625/1626, Leiden – 1679, ''id