Baker’s Couple Arent Oostwaard and Catharina Keizerswaard
Also titled Bakkersechtpaar Arent Oostwaard en Catharina Keizerswaard
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
1658
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 37.7 cm x width 31.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
This baker’s couple from Leiden proudly proffer their freshly baked loaves and rolls. An old inscription on the back of the painting gives their names. The boy is also mentioned: he is the painter’s son. He may blow the horn to let people know the bread is ready. Jan Steen combined several genres in a single painting – it serves as a family portrait, a still life of bread, and a portrayal of a profession all at once.
