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Prince’s Day
Also titled Prinsjesdag
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
1660 - 1679
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 46 cm x width 62.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Prince’s Day! This popular feast-day celebrated the birthday (14 November 1650) of Prince William III of Orange-Nassau. How this was done is explained on the piece of paper on the floor in the middle foreground. This translates as: ‘To the health of the Nassau laddie, in one hand a rapier, and in the other a glass raised gladly.’ This is sure to boost spirits; the revellers take no notice of the portrait of the prince ‘overlooking’ the scene.
