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#FineArtFriday: Tavern of the Crescent Moon by Jan Miense Molenaer (revisited)

#FineArtFriday: Tavern of the Crescent Moon by Jan Miense Molenaer (revisited)

Artist: Jan Miense Molenaer (1609/1610–1668) Title: Tavern of the Crescent Moon Genre: genre art Date: mid-17th century Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 87.8 × 102 cm (34.5 × 40.1 in) Collection: Budapest Museum of Fine Arts The sign hanging in front of the Tavern of the Crescent Moon shows it was a wayside inn catering to the traveling public and some locals.  Molenaer’s inn seems to have been…

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Jan Miense Molenaer, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player (c. 1635)

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Young Smoker, by Jan Miense Molenaer, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.

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Jan Miense Molenaer, His Family portrait, 1635.

Jan Miense Molenaer (1610, Haarlem - buried 19 September 1668, Haarlem ), was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting. He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre painter, as well as a portraitist and painter of still-life. Both Molenaer and Leyster may have been pupils of the successful Dutch painter, Frans Hals.