# Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’

- By: Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
- Date: 1655
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 82.5 cm x width 68.5 cm x depth cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Fonds, the Nationaal Aankoopfonds of the Ministerie van OCenW, the BankGiro Lottery, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit, the VSBfonds, the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding…
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4981--9d0b6b75646aaaa22fc25e7eacdb65b5)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/e75b75ac5be645ebccaaa3b35583c193.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Legs wide apart and his right arm akimbo, Croeser sits on the stoop of his house on the Oude Delft canal in Delft. His thirteen-year-old daughter Catharina looks straight out at us. Jan Steen included a narrative element in this portrait: a poor woman and child beg for alms from the wealthy grain merchant. In 1657, just two years after this portrait was made, Croeser stood surety for Steen, who was seriously in debt.