Twelfth-Night Feast MFAB (22)
Week 6 Stagger back in Admiration Candlelight Suppers (1076 -1080)03/08 – 03/13/2020 ID 1077
Jan Havicksz. Steen Dutch, 1626 - 1679
Twelfth-Night Feast , 1662
Oil on canvas
Twelfth Night is observed in early January, marking the end of the Christmas Season and beginning of Epiphany. It celebrates the arrival (twelve days after Jesus’s birth) of the Three Kings, led by a star to the newborn. Here Steen depicts the jovial atmosphere of a prosperous Dutch family’s celebrations. Notice the painting’s many details egg shells litter the floor where children play with candles symbolic of the Kings, while at the table, adults carouse as a boy offers the little “king” a bite of his holiday waffle.
1951 Purchase Fund, 1954 54.102
From the Placard: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Steen
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/jan-havicksz-steen
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/jan-steen
Twelfth-Night Feast MFAB (22)
Week 6 Stagger back in Admiration Candlelight Suppers (1076 -1080)03/08 – 03/13/2020 ID 1077
Jan Havicksz. Steen Dutch, 1626 - 1679
Twelfth-Night Feast , 1662
Oil on canvas
Twelfth Night is observed in early January, marking the end of the Christmas Season and beginning of Epiphany. It celebrates the arrival (twelve days after Jesus’s birth) of the Three Kings, led by a star to the newborn. Here Steen depicts the jovial atmosphere of a prosperous Dutch family’s celebrations. Notice the painting’s many details egg shells litter the floor where children play with candles symbolic of the Kings, while at the table, adults carouse as a boy offers the little “king” a bite of his holiday waffle.
1951 Purchase Fund, 1954 54.102
From the Placard: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Steen
www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/jan-havicksz-steen
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/jan-steen