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Summary

Jan Steen: 'As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young'

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

‘The way you hear it, is the way you sing it’

Object type

painting

Genre

genre art

Date

circa 1665

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 134 cm (52.7 in); width: 163 cm (64.1 in)

Collection

Mauritshuis (Inventory)

	Native name	Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis
	Location	Korte Vijverberg 8, The Hague
	Coordinates	52° 04′ 49.4″ N, 4° 18′ 51.5″ E
	Established	1822
	Website	mauritshuis.nl
	Authority file	: Q221092 VIAF: 134457328 ISNI: 000000012288890X ULAN: 500307433 LCCN: n79026755 GND: 62314-3 WorldCat

Accession number

742

Place of creation

Haarlem or Leiden

Object history

by 1814: Hermina Jacoba, barones van Leyden (geboren gravin Thoms) (1744-1814), Warmond

1 July 1816: purchased by C. Josi (art dealer) at the sale of the collection of Hermina Jacoba, barones van Leyden , lot no. 35, for NLG 1,260 , for Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (1782-1846), The Hague

by 12 May 1912: jhr. Hendrick Adolf Steengracht van Duivenvoorde (1836-1912), The Hague

9 June 1913: sale of the collection of jhr. Hendrik Adolf Steengracht van Duivenvoorde at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot no. 70, for NLG 375,000

9 June 1913: purchased by the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague

Exhibition history

Jan Steen. Painter and storyteller, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 28 April 1996–18 August 1996, cat. no. 23.

Credit line

Purchased by the Mauritshuis with support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Inscriptions

center:

Liet / Soo voer gesongen soo / na gepepen dat is al lang / g[e]bleken ick sing u vo[or] /so[o] volcht ons na[er] / van een tot hon[derd] jaar

On the piece of paper in the hands of the old woman

References

AnonymousUnknown author, Mauritshuis online catalogue, as ‘As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young’, circa 1668-1670.
AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 6500, as ‘The way you hear it, is the way you sing it’, 1663-1665

Anonymous, Web Gallery of Art, as The Artist's Family, circa 1665.
Anonymous, Vereniging Rembrandt, as Zoals de ouden zongen, zo piepen de jongen, circa 1665.
Gerson, H. (1952) De schoonheid van ons land [vol. 11], Amsterdam: Contact, p. 64, with image in black and white (ill. 90), as ‘Soo de ouden songe, soo pijpen de jonghen’.

Source/Photographer

www.mauritshuis.nl : Home : Info : Pic

Other versions

File:Jan Steen 022 colour version 01.jpg
Version from www.wga.hu

File:Jan Steen 022.jpg
Version from H. Gerson (1952) De schoonheid van ons land [vol. 11], Amsterdam: Contact.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	19:20, 25 June 2015	5,974 × 4,947 (5.38 MB)	Pimbrils	Better resolution
	23:02, 12 July 2014	1,200 × 994 (1.06 MB)	Coat of Many Colours	New Mauritshuis version. More faithful colours.
	13:13, 27 May 2014	1,296 × 1,080 (1,012 KB)	Jan Arkesteijn	more details
	19:47, 17 May 2007	1,379 × 1,103 (558 KB)	Peter Isotalo	''The Way you Hear it is the Way you Sing it (As the Old Sing, So Twitter the Young)'' by Jan Steen, c. 1665, oil on canvas. Scanned from ''Smoke: a global history of smoking'' (2004) ISBN 1-86189-200-4 Category:Smoking in art