Jan Miense Molenaer

Training under Frans Hals is recorded. Judith Leyster is recorded as having studied under Jan Miense Molenaer. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Haarlem, Amsterdam and Heemstede. Works named in the authority record are The Five Senses: Touch and Battle Between Carnival and Lent. Work by Jan Miense Molenaer is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nationalmuseum and Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Molenaer was born and died in Haarlem. He achieved a style close to Hals' early on in his career, but later developed a style like that of Dutch genre painter, Adriaen van Ostade. His genre works often depicted players of music, such as his The Music Makers (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), The Duet (Seattle Art Museum), or Family Making Music (Frans Hals Museum). He also depicted Taverns and the activities of card games or games of the times such as La main chaude, or in Dutch, Handjeklap, which literally means clapping hands. Molenaer also cleverly depicted biblical stories in his own time and surroundings, such as representing a scene from Peter's Gospel set in a Dutch Tavern in The Denying of Peter (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).

1629 – The Dentist, Oil on panel, (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh) 1629 – Two Boys and a Girl Making Music, Oil on canvas, (National Gallery, London) 1630 – A Quack and His Assistant, Oil on canvas, (Private Collection) 1630 – The Duet, Oil on canvas, (Seattle Art Museum, Seattle) 1630/32 – A Young Man playing a Theorbo and a Young Woman playing a Cittern, Oil on canvas, (National Gallery, London) 1631 – Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company, Oil on canvas, (Staatliche Museen, Berlin) 1633 – Allegory of Vanity, Oil on canvas, (Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo) 1633 – Allegory of Marital Fidelity, Oil on canvas, (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond) 1633/35 – Battle Between Carnival and Lent, Oil on wood, (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis) 1635 – Card Players, Oil on panel, (Currier Museum of Art, Manchester) 1635 – Young Smoker, Oil on panel, (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo) 1635 – Family Making Music, Oil on panel, (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem) 1636 – The Denying of Peter, Oil on canvas, (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) 1640s – Woman Holding a Jug, Oil on panel, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)