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Jan Steen · 1663

The Dancing Couple

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A kermis party under a vine-covered arbour: a man in a plum beret dances with a young woman while fiddler and flautist play from the railing, diners laugh at the long table and a barrel lies on its side in the foreground. National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Up to 16.9 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

16.9″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Dancing Couple

The Dancing Couple is an oil-on-canvas painting made by Jan Steen in 1663. It shows a boisterous party with a dancing couple in the centre, and the setting is a kermis, the Dutch village fair. It is part of the Widener Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jan Steen

Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century. His works are known for their psychological insight, sense of humour and abundance of colour. Their satire also mocks the behavior and attitudes of the Dutch bourgeoisie.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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