The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century by Mariet Westermann - 1997

W Books, June 1999. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, there is a half in whole on the back of the jacket . pages and binding are clean, binding a bit cocked but still tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1997. (NETH) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, tiny bump to top corner of front cover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to gloss of rear panel of Dj. Hardcover, 366pp, index, 187 B&W illus. From the dust jacket: The Dutch painter Jan Steen (1626-1679) has long enjoyed a reputation for his dissolute life, redeemed only by a keen eye for the follies of his contemporaries and an exquisite ability to capture his observations in paint. Steen's paintings of unruly households, rambunctious revels, and wily seductresses have come to define our image of the delicious and immoral excesses of the Golden Age. But rather than simply recording the illicit pleasures of Dutch burghers and peasants, Steen transformed them into ambitious genre paintings that rival the peasant epics of Bruegel the Elder and jest with the genteel idylls of Vermeer and Terborch. By placing Steen within Dutch society and culture of the seventeenth century, Mariet Westermann shows… Read More

Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First printing(?); no printing history on the copyright page. Text is in English. Illustrated throughout with photographs of paintings, some in color. Mustard cloth stamped in red. Fine volume in an unclipped (unpriced) dust jacket which has some wrinkling near the edges. The jacket is protected in a sleeve.