Maverick Mist

Fantasy Interior with Jan Steen and the Family of Gerrit Schouten
Jan Steen

 "Interior scene with two dogs in center foreground, foot warmer, right middle ground, left to right: Negro placing silver pot in marble basin; velvet-covered side chair holding belt with sheathed sword; bowing boy offering peeled lemon on round salver to seated woman in gray with open book in lap; standing man behind her in front of fireplace addressing seated man; standing woman at clavichord with elaborately carved pedestal; another woman beyond clavichord playing lute, facing left. Tapestries on wall, rear, drawn aside at door, left, through which is seen woman laying table in front of leaded windows; octagonal table bearing tray and pitcher; gray stone fireplace, center, with column on each side, motto "discite mori" on top face, be hatted skull with arrow on mantelpiece, above painting of warriors and elephants; right, tall cupboard with sculpture atop of Venus and putto flanked left, by infant Bacchus and right, Eros sharpening his bow."

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