Beware of Luxury (In Weelde Siet Toe)

Jan Steen

1663 · Oil on canvas · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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About this work

Artist: Jan Steen (1626–1679)
Year: 1663
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 105 × 145.5 cm
Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Movement: Dutch Golden Age

The mistress of the house has fallen asleep at the table and everything is going wrong. Her husband flirts with a young woman who holds a glass of wine between his knees, modelled by Steen's own wife Margriet van Goyen; a dog eats the pie, a pig has run off with the tap of the leaking wine cask, a monkey plays with the clock, a child rifles the cupboard, and a nun's warning goes unheard. On the slate in the corner is the first half of a Dutch proverb, In weelde siet toe, beware in times of plenty, and from the ceiling hangs a basket holding a sword and a crutch, the consequences waiting to fall. Jan Steen painted this upside-down world in 1663, signing and dating it. Charles of Lorraine's collection brought it to Vienna, where the Kunsthistorisches Museum acquired it in 1780. It is the fullest of his comic sermons on the disorderly household.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 12×18 and 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Beware of Luxury (In Weelde Siet Toe) in the public domain?

Yes. Jan Steen (1626–1679) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Kunsthistorisches Museum.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Beware of Luxury (In Weelde Siet Toe) painted, and in what medium?

Beware of Luxury (In Weelde Siet Toe) dates from 1663 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 105 × 145.5 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Jan Steen's Beware of Luxury — Beware of Luxury — a household in happy disorder, a pig at the spigot and a monkey stopping the clock — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Merry Company: Dutch Genre Painting, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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