ID: 700009647 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009647	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Het Sint-Nicolaasfeest (painting (visual work); Jan Havicksz. Steen; 1665/1668; Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands); SK-A-385)

Note: The feast of St Nicholas takes place in December; in the Netherlands it has been celebrated in the same way for centuries. Good children receive gifts from the saint. The little girl in the foreground, for instance, has a bucket full of treats. Naughty children, like the wailing boy at the left, get only a bundle of twigs in their shoe.

Titles:

Het Sint-Nicolaasfeest (preferred,C,U,RP,Dutch-P,U,A)

The Feast of St. Nicholas (C,U,RP,English-P,U,P)

The Eve of St. Nicholas (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1665/1668

Creator Display:

Jan Havicksz. Steen [preferred]

painter Steen, Jan (Dutch painter, 1626-1679) [500115664]

Locations:

Current: Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands) [500246547] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: SK-A-385

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: h 82.0 cm × w 70.5 cm

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Saint Nicholas’ Day [300404322]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, holidays, religious holidays, Christian holidays) (AAT)

	gifts (legal property) [300138913]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, legal concepts, <property and related concepts>, property (legal concept)) (AAT)

	children (people by age group) [300025945]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by age group>, youth (people)) (AAT)

Provenance: purchase 1809

Inscriptions: signature

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Het Sint-Nicolaasfeest	........ [VP]
	........ Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-)
The Feast of St. Nicholas	........ [VP]
	........ Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-)
The Eve of St. Nicholas	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Rijksmuseum [online] (2000-) accessed 16 August 2019