Jan Miense Molenaer
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Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 – buried 19 September 1668)genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting.[2] He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre painter, as well as a portraitist and painter of still-life. Both Molenaer and Leyster may have been pupils of Frans Hals.
Biography
Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. He achieved a style close to
Taverns and the activities of card games or games of the times such as La main chaude, or in Dutch, Handjeklap , which literally means clapping hands. Molenaer also cleverly depicted biblical stories in his own time and surroundings, such as representing a scene from Peter's Gospel set in a Dutch Tavern in The Denying of Peter (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).[4][5]
Selected works

- 1629 – The Dentist, Oil on panel, (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh)[6]
- 1629 – Two Boys and a Girl Making Music, Oil on canvas, (
- 1630 – A Quack and His Assistant, Oil on canvas, (Private Collection)[3]
- 1630 – The Duet, Oil on canvas, (Seattle Art Museum, Seattle)[8]
- 1630/32 – A Young Man playing a Theorbo and a Young Woman playing a Cittern, Oil on canvas, (
- 1631 – Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company, Oil on canvas, (
- 1633 – Allegory of Vanity, Oil on canvas, (Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo)[3]
- 1633 – Allegory of Marital Fidelity, Oil on canvas, (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)[10]
- 1633/35 – Battle Between Carnival and Lent, Oil on wood, (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis)[11]
- 1635 – Card Players, Oil on panel, (Currier Museum of Art, Manchester)[12]
- 1635 – Young Smoker, Oil on panel, (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo)[13]
- 1635 – Family Making Music, Oil on panel, (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem)[14]
- 1636 – The Denying of Peter, Oil on canvas, (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)[3]
- 1640s – Woman Holding a Jug, Oil on panel, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)[15]
References
- ^ "Home Jan Miense Molenaer". Rkd.nl. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ "Grove Dictionary of Art". Artnet.com. 2014-06-12. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ a b c d e "Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000–1900)". Wga.hu. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ "Kren and Marx Comments on The Denying of Peter in the Web Gallery of Art, www.wga.hu". Wga.hu. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ISBN 9780882599885. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "The Dentist". North Carolina Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
- ^ "Jan Miense Molenaer | Two Boys and a Girl making Music | NG5416 | The National Gallery, London". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ "The Duet, ca. 1629". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
- ^ "Jan Miense Molenaer | A Young Man and Woman making Music | NG1293 | The National Gallery, London". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ "Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Richmond, Virginia". Vmfa.state.va.us. Archived from the original on 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.ima-art.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "EmbARK Web Kiosk". collections.currier.org.
- ^ "Giovane fumatore Molenaer Jan Miense 58MR00063 – Accademia Carrara di Bergamo Pinacoteca". Accademia Carrara di Bergamo Pinacoteca.
- ^ "Molenaer, Jan Miense, Haarlem 1610/11 - Haarlem 1668, Family Making Music, c. 1635". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
- ^ "Collections | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston". Mfa.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
External links
Media related to Jan Miense Molenaer at Wikimedia Commons
- wga.hu, List of painters in the Web Gallery of Art
- Political Iconography in a Painting by Jan Miense Molenaer
- Works and literature on Jan Miense Molenaer