...emergency. The 'doctor' is wearing clothes which were by then old-fashioned. Doctors in garments such as these were confined to the stage, where playwrights made fun of incompetent quacks. Title The Sick Woman Year c. 1665 ArtistJan Havicksz. Steen Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 76 x...

...firepan and the mussel and eggshells on the ground suggest debauchery, lust and idleness. Jan Havicksz. Steen (1626-1679) Jan Havicksz. Steen was born in Leiden in 1626, the son of a brewer. Educated at a Latin school he enrolled in 1646 at Leiden university, although he was never to...