Art Of The Day Weekly
#502 - from 15 February 2018 to 21 February 2018
Jean Brusselmans, The Storm, 1936, oil on canvas, 147 x 147 cm, private collection (exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague).
EXHIBITIONS
Another Steen
THE HAGUE - Jan Steen seems to rhyme with a painting style that is joyful and popular, tavern scenes that are a little rude, smoking parlors inhabited by picturesque and original faces. Strangely though, the uniform vision today’s museums give us is not the one observed after his death. This crude Dutch painter used to be appreciated in his time as a painter of religious and mythological scenes. The exhibition explores this reversal of the way of looking, as it shows various Lot, more than one Moses, while it takes the opportunity to attribute to the master of Leyden a painting from the museum of Antwerp. Until now this Samson Mocked by the Philistines was thought to be the work of one of his disciples of the 18th century: but technical analysis unveiled in particular a specific green pigment which is found in the master’s other works.
• Jan Steen’s Histories, at the Mauritshuis, from 15 February to 13 May 2018.