The Effects of Intemperance
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Artist | Jan Steen |
Year | 1662 |
Medium | Oil on wood |
Dimensions | 76 cm × 106.5 cm (30 in × 41.9 in) |
Location | The National Gallery, London |
The Effects of Intemperance is an oil-on-panel painting executed c.1663–1665 by the Dutch artist Jan Steen. It was bought by the National Gallery, London in 1977 and is still in its collection.
The work depicts an issue which Steen addressed several times, that of the unfortunate consequences of excessive drinking. As keeper of a tavern himself he was well acquainted with the problem but chose to portray it in a light-hearted manner. In this case a wife and mother has fallen into a drunken sleep and the rest of the family has taken advantage of the fact to misbehave. One is trying to persuade the parrot to drink wine, others are giving their food to the cat and roses to the pig, a young boy is trying to steal from his mother's purse and the woman's husband is in the garden engaged in a dalliance with the maid.
Several of these themes can also be found in Steen's 1663 painting Beware of Luxury, which also portrays an out-of-control household.
Sources
- https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-steen-the-effects-of-intemperance
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- A Mayor of Delft and his Daughter (1655)
- The Drunken Couple (c. 1655–1665)
- Interior with an Old Woman and a Young Boy (c. 1656–1660)
- The Oyster Eater (c. 1658–1660)
- The Lovesick Maiden (c. 1660)
- Tobias and Sarah in Prayer with the Angel Raphael and the Demon (c. 1660)
- The Physician's Visit (1660–1662)
- Skittle Players outside an Inn (c. 1660–1663)
- Children Teaching a Cat to Dance (c. 1660–1679)
- The Twelfth Night Feast (1662)
- Beware of Luxury (1663)
- The Dancing Couple (1663)
- Woman at her Toilet (1663)
- Wine is a Mocker (1663–64)
- The Effects of Intemperance (c. 1663–1665)
- The Feast of Saint Nicholas (c. 1665–1668)
- The Bean Feast (c. 1668)
- The Happy Family (1668)
- "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (1668–1670)
- Samson Mocked (c. 1670)
- SS Jan Steen