# The Dissolute Household [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STEEN, Jan]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 81 x 89 cm ## Commentary This painting ranks among the most important pictures painted by the artist during his initial Haarlem period. It depicts a scene of utter chaos and parental abandon. Similarly to a sizeable number of his paintings, Steen inserted himself into the picture \(the figure of the pipe-smoker bears his facial feature\). ## Related artworks - [A Burgher of Delft and His Daughter]() - [A Merry Party \(detail\)]() - [A Merry Party \(detail\)]() - [A Merry Party]() - [Argument over a Card Game]() - [Arrival of a Visitor]() - ['As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young' \(detail\)]() - ['As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young']() - [Baptism \("So de oude songen, so pypen de jongen"\)]() - [Before an Inn]() - [Celebrating the Birth]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()