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Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as The Dancing Lesson
Also titled Kinderen leren een poes dansen, bekend als De dansles
Jan Havicksz. Steen (Leiden, ca. –1679)
1660 - 1679
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 68.5 cm x width 59 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
These children are up to mischief: they are teaching a cat to dance to the music of a small shawm. Widely used between the 15th and 17th centuries, the shawm was the predecessor of the oboe. Mostly played in dance and ceremonial music, shawms were appreciated for their loud tone.
