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Dutch painter
Self-portrait , 1640
Family making Music , 1635–6.
Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 – buried 19 September 1668),
[1] was a
Dutch Golden Age
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
Hals ' early on in his career, but later developed a style like that of Dutch genre painter,
Adriaen van Ostade .
[3] His genre works often depicted players of music, such as his The Music Makers (
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ), The Duet (
Seattle Art Museum ), or Family Making Music (
Frans Hals Museum ). He also depicted
Taverns and the activities of card games or games of the times such as La main chaude , or in Dutch,
Handjeklap [
nl ] , 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
Two Boys and a Girl Making Music
1629 – The Dentist , Oil on panel, (
North Carolina Museum of Art ,
Raleigh )
[6]
1629 – Two Boys and a Girl Making Music , Oil on canvas, (
National Gallery ,
London )
[7]
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, (
National Gallery ,
London )
[9]
1631 – Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company , Oil on canvas, (
Staatliche Museen ,
Berlin )
[3]
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
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"Home Jan Miense Molenaer" . Rkd.nl. Retrieved 2014-06-25 .
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"Grove Dictionary of Art" . Artnet.com. 2014-06-12. Retrieved 2014-06-25 .
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"Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000–1900)" . Wga.hu. Retrieved 2014-06-25 .
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"Kren and Marx Comments on The Denying of Peter in the Web Gallery of Art, www.wga.hu" . Wga.hu. Retrieved 2014-06-25 .
^ Dennis P. Weller, North Carolina Museum of Art; Cynthia Von Bogendorf Rupprath; Mariët Westermann (2002).
Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age . Hudson Hills.
ISBN
9780882599885 . Retrieved 27 June 2013 .
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"The Dentist" . North Carolina Museum of Art.
Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2019-05-04 .
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"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 .
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"The Duet, ca. 1629" . Archived from
the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2007 .
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"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 .
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"Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Richmond, Virginia" . Vmfa.state.va.us. Archived from
the original on 2009-01-15. Retrieved 2014-06-25 .
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"Archived copy" . www.ima-art.org . Archived from
the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022 . {{
cite web }}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link )
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"EmbARK Web Kiosk" . collections.currier.org .
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"Giovane fumatore Molenaer Jan Miense 58MR00063 – Accademia Carrara di Bergamo Pinacoteca" . Accademia Carrara di Bergamo Pinacoteca .
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"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 .
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"Collections | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" . Mfa.org. Archived from
the original on 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2014-06-25 .
External links
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Jan Miense Molenaer at Wikimedia Commons
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