genre: genre art / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Louis XV of France (2) | Paris (1) | France (1) | University of Pennsylvania (1) | Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1) | Francesco Maria del Monte (1) | William I of Württemberg (1) | Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1) | Halil Şerif Paşa (1) | Pieter van Ruijven (1) | Jan Gildemeester (1) | Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (1) | William Thompson Walters (1) | Charles Marcotte d'Argenteuil (1)

owned by: Karoline Luise von Baden (36) | Willem Lormier (29) | France (26) | John G. Johnson (22) | Jan Gildemeester (21) | Birmingham Museum of Art (14) | Alfred Thieme (13) | Antoine Poullain (11) | Louisine Havemeyer (10) | Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection (10) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (9) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (9) | Bucharest (8) | Maximilian Speck von Sternburg (8) | Museum of Montserrat (7) | Dallas Museum of Art (7) | Eugène Secrétan (7) | Heinrich von Brühl (6)

movement: Dutch Golden Age painting (55) | academic art (49) | Orientalism (46) | Impressionism (37) | Romanticism (28) | Realism (27) | Baroque (16) | rococo (16) | Art Nouveau (15) | Realism (15) | Post-Impressionism (14) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (13) | neo-Pompeian (13) | neoclassicism (9) | pointillism (6) | Flemish Primitives (6) | Romantic painting (6) | Naturalism (5)

named after: Tannhäuser (1)

based on: Netherlandish Proverbs (5) | A Boy Blowing Bubbles (3) | The Doctor's Visit (3) | The Winnower (2) | The Hunters at Rest (2) | The Lion Hunt (2) | Woman writing a letter (2) | Etude de nu féminin (2) | Woman before a Mirror (2) | Fainted Woman (2) | Macbeth (1) | Daphnis and Chloe (1) | Malle Babbe (1) | The Tiger Hunt (1) | The Peasant Wedding (1) | Duchess of Richmond's ball (1) | Olympia (1) | Know thyself (1)

artist: Jan Steen (193) | Pieter de Hooch (177) | David Teniers the Younger (153) | Adriaen van Ostade (130) | anonymous (117) | Gerrit Dou (92) | Gerard ter Borch (84) | Vincent van Gogh (81) | Gabriël Metsu (72) | Jan Miense Molenaer (70) | Frans van Mieris the Elder (65) | Adriaen Brouwer (57) | Francisco Goya (43) | Philips Wouwerman (39) | Frans Hals (38) | Anders Zorn (38) | Paul Cézanne (35) | Nicolaes Maes (34)

part of the series: Baigneuses (Bathers) (11) | The Card Players (5) | Copies by Vincent van Gogh (4) | The Five Senses (4) | Two men contemplating the Moon (2) | Interiors with figures (2) | A Rake's Progress (1) | L'Équipe de Cardiff (1) | Marriage à-la-mode (1) | Early works of Vincent van Gogh (1)

depicts: woman (1,589) | man (1,358) | child (270) | sitting (217) | dog (199) | sky (172) | tree (167) | horse (165) | boy (155) | girl (149) | nudity (147) | standing (147) | table (144) | group of humans (132) | window (131) | breast (103) | dress (103) | drapery (91)

material used: oil paint (3,641) | canvas (1,578) | panel (281) | wood (224) | canvas (169) | paper (73) | cardboard (42) | oak (31) | watercolor paint (29) | copper (23) | gouache paint (21) | tempera (15) | graphite (11) | pastel (11) | pencil (7) | board (7) | India ink (6) | color (5)

collection: private collection (589) | National Museum in Warsaw (234) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (191) | Rijksmuseum (135) | Musée d'Orsay (126) | Statens Museum for Kunst (100) | Hermitage Museum (98) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (76) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (61) | Mauritshuis (60) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (56) | Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (56) | National Gallery (53) | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (49) | Städel Museum (47) | The Wallace Collection (44) | Museo del Prado (43) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (43)

location: private collection (245) | Rijksmuseum (131) | museum's storage space (126) | Musée d'Orsay (115) | National Museum in Warsaw (99) | Statens Museum for Kunst (99) | Hermitage Museum (96) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (65) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (61) | Mauritshuis (56) | National Gallery (48) | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (48) | Städel Museum (46) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (44) | Museo del Prado (43) | The Wallace Collection (42) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (42) | Gemäldegalerie (40)

part of: Punishment of a Hunter (12) | Black Paintings (8) | Álbum de desenhos Traversée de Toulon à Rio-Janeiro (8) | The Card Players (4) | Four Seasons (4) | Tropical Sketches from Brazil (4) | Embroidery woman series (3) | 'La Dance' collection (3) | The Senses (3) | The Months of the Year (3) | Thier Buch (3) | First Steps series (2) | Le Bénédicité (2) | Before and After (2) | Álbum de desenhos Bresil (2) | Dutch Gift (1) | Marie de' Medici cycle (1) | Two men contemplating the Moon (1)

country of origin: United States of America (80) | France (52) | Spain (38) | Brazil (12) | Denmark (11) | Germany (8) | Netherlands (6) | Romania (6) | Italy (3) | Gibraltar (3) | Sweden (1) | Switzerland (1) | Bulgaria (1) | Bucharest (1) | Duchy of Milan (1) | Kingdom of Italy (1) | Habsburg Netherlands (1)

exhibition history: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (68) | Europeana 280 (21) | Dutch masters from the Hermitage (18) | Harriet Backer: 1845-1932, Bergen Billedgalleri 7. september - 27. oktober 1996, Nasjonalgalleriet 9. november 1996 - 2. februar 1997 (11) | 3rd impressionist exhibition (7) | Corps et Ombres (6) | 4th impressionist exhibition (5) | Salon of 1869 (5) | 1st impressionist exhibition (5) | International Exposition 1867 (4) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (4) | Salon of 1814 (4) | 2nd impressionist exhibition (4) | Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (4) | Secretan sale 1889 (4) | Velázquez (4) | National Trust - Dutch Masters from British Country Houses (4) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (3)

main subject: winter landscape (20) | washing (19) | handicraft (12) | agriculture (11) | card sharp (11) | hunting (7) | Spanish-style bullfighting (7) | The Blue Cloak (7) | work (6) | lesbian (3) | building (3) | food preparation (3) | Bathsheba at her bath (3) | girl (2) | eating (2) | peasant (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | pont de l'Europe (2)

donated by: heir (7) | Josep Sala i Ardiz (7) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | James H. Clark (1) | Eugene McDermott (1) | Joan Ferrer Miró (1) | Leland Fikes Foundation (1) | Nancy Hamon (1) | Edward Marcus (1) | James Beattie (1) | Adelaide Milton de Groot (1) | Edwin A. Ulrich (1) | A.P. van Hoey Smith (1) | Fred and Frances Sohn (1) | John J. Ireland (1) | Ivor and Anne Massey (1) | Anne R. Fischer (1) | Hildegarde Graham van Roijen (1)

location of final assembly: Nuenen (50) | Paris (13) | United States of America (9) | Arles (9) | France (8) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (7) | Rome (6) | The Hague (6) | Tahiti (5) | Netherlands (3) | Brazil (3) | Valencia (3) | Pont-Aven (3) | Italy (2) | New York City (2) | Drenthe (2) | Keuruu (2) | Chailly-en-Bière (2)

published in: The Complete Van Gogh with Pictures (3) | L'Illustration (2) | J.-B. de la Faille: L'Œuvre de Vincent van Gogh, catalogue raisonné (2) | The works of Vincent van Gogh: His Paintings and Drawings (revised, augmented and annotated edition) (2) | The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches (2) | European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (2) | The Dutch Period (1880-1885) in Vincent van Gogh's Work (1853-1890) (2) | Vincent van Gogh Drawings: Nuenen 1883-85 Volume 2 (2) | The Masterpieces of European Painting from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1800–1920 (2) | American art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2) | Metropolitan Museum Journal (1) | The New Complete Van Gogh: Fully revised and enlarged edition of the Catalogue raisonné (1) | Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (1) | The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh (1) | Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces (1) | Tragic Life of Vincent van Gogh (1) | Notable Acquisitions, 1984–1985 (1) | Van Gogh (1)

fabrication method: watercolor (22) | oil painting (19) | chiaroscuro (4) | monotyping (1) | encaustic painting (1) | grisaille (1) | ink wash painting (1)

time period: Dutch Golden Age painting (1)