Jan Steen Works Online
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Original works by Jan Steen available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Jan Steen at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Gamblers Quarreling, ca.1665
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
6 paintings
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Steen
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Game of Skittles, ca.1650
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
The Fat Kitchen, ca.1665/70 (Zoom)
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Jan Steen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery, London, UK
Jan Steen at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Dancing Couple, 1663
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Lean Kitchen
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Jan Steen at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
10 works online
Jan Steen at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
24 works by Jan Steen online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Merry Company
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
The Fat Kitchen
The Lean Kitchen
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
The Journal Readers, ca.1660-70
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
The Peasant Carnival, 1668/70
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Jan Steen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Pancake Woman
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Trictrac Players
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
2 works online
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the THIRD Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Country people playing a ball-game
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
The Worship of the Golden Calf, ca.1672-75
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 19 in order to see 2 paintings by Jan Steen
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
8 works by Jan Steen online
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Theseus and Achelous
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Les rhétoriciens - In liefde vrij
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Painting from the exhibition Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
5 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Self-Portrait as a Lutenist, ca.1652-65
Tavern Scene, ca.1661-65
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Wedding Scene, ca.1653
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Virtual Uffizi
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Rhetoricians, ca.1655
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 985
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jan Steen in the Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia
The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter
Jan Steen at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Children teaching a Cat to dance (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Google Art Project NEW!
The Feast of St. Nicholas (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Google Art Project NEW!
The Merry Family (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
The Athenaeum 
50 works online by Steen
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artpx
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Wellcome Images Collection, London
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Delft Artists and Patrons
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jan Steen 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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