The Sick Woman — History & Facts
Faint from fever, the young woman rests her head on a pillow. Is she perhaps lovesick? Is she pregnant? To find out, a quack would put a strip of his patient’s clothing in a brazier to smoulder – the scent would disclose her secret. Jan Steen here presents such a charlatan making a diagnosis.
His old-fashioned attire characterizes him as a comic character.
More Artworks by Jan Havicksz. Steen
The Feast of St Nicholas
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two kinds of games'
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Baker’s Couple Arent Oostwaard and Catharina Keizerswaard
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Children Teaching a Cat to Dance, Known as The Dancing Lesson
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Self-portrait
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Adolf and Catharina Croeser, Known as ‘The Burgomaster of Delft and his Daughter’
Jan Havicksz. Steen
The Merry Family
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Prince’s Day
Jan Havicksz. Steen
Woman at her Toilet
Jan Havicksz. Steen
More Genre Scene Art
Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard
Frans Hals
Rembrandt and Saskia in the Scene of the Prodigal Son
Rembrandt van Rijn
Bal du moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
A Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet
When Will You Marry?
Paul Gauguin