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Jan Steen (1626-1679)
The fresh water fish market beside the St. Jacobskerk, The Hague. Signed and dated 1654. Panel, 59 × 71.5 cm.

The Hague, Gemeentemu-seum, inv.nr. 33-26. Acquired in 1926 with the financial aid of the art historian Abraham Bredius.

Jan Steen, a native of Leiden, was one of the founding members of the guild of St. Luke there in 1648. A year later he married the daughter of The Hague landscape painter Jan van Goyen and moved to that nearby town, where he lived until 1654.