Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer (1654-1683), known as 'The Poultry Yard'

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Portrait of Jacoba Maria van Wassenaer (1654-1683), known as 'The Poultry Yard'

Jan Steen
1660

166 - zaal 14

Steen made this child’s portrait into something special. He placed the girl in a poultry yard, where she is giving a drink of milk to a lamb. She is surrounded by a motley collection of birds. Two gnarled servants look on in amusement, and their presence makes the girl look even sweeter and more endearing.

The child is Jacoba van Wassenaer. In the background is the castle where she lived: the castle of Lokhorst, or Oud-Teijlingen. When Steen painted the portrait, he lived nearby in the village of Warmond.

oil sur canvas
106.6 x 80.8 cm.
Collection William V, transferred 1816