# Riotous Schoolroom with a Snoozing Schoolmaster [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STEEN, Jan]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 38 x 49 cm ## Commentary Jan Steen treated the subject of a schoolroom interior several times during his career. His talent for storytelling is given free rein in the present composition, in which the children fill the entire scene, let loose to take as much advantage of their sleeping teacher as possible. The painting belongs to a long tradition of schoolroom representations, which find their origin in a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/bruegel/pieter\_e/13/01drawin.html'\)" href="/html/b/bruegel/pieter\_e/13/01drawin.html">composition by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.</a> The painting is signed and dated lower left: JSteen . 1672. ## 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]()