Merry Family
Steen, Jan
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1668Description
Overall view without frame; This boisterous family is making a lot of noise: the father sings at the top of his lungs while raising a glass; the mother and grandmother chime in; and the children are either blowing into a wind instrument or smoking a long pipe. The note hanging from the mantelpiece gives away the moral of the story: "As the old sing, so shall the young twitter." What will become of the children if their parents set the wrong example? Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 6/22/2015)
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painting (visual work)Subject
genre, music, families, homily, moralizing tale, Seventeenth century, Baroque
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