Centered around Jan Steen’s The Wrath of Ahasuerus (in the Barber’s collection), this exhibition considers Steen as history painter, and the influence of contemporary Dutch theater on painting. Accompanied by a catalogue by Robert Wenley, Nina Cahill, and Rosalie von Gulick, Jan Steen’s Old Testament Scenes, London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018. ISBN 1911300091, $25.00.
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