# The Dissolute Household [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STEEN, Jan]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 108 x 90 cm ## Commentary In the 1660s Jan Steen painted this subject and closely related themes in several variations. According to Arnold Houbraken in his biography of Steen, these paintings are emblems of the artist's disorderly household. This is confirmed by the fact that Steen used members of his immediate family as models. The central figure is a self-portrait. ## 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]()