The Feast of Saint Nicholas

Inside a dim room dominated by a red canopy, a crowd of people gathers around a kneeling girl in a white bonnet who presents gifts to a seated woman with a white headscarf. A checkered floor is strewn with bread, pastries, and small toys, while other figures smile or gesture, creating a lively, narrative moment. The composition is crowded and diagonally arranged, with warm earth tones and strong contrasts of light and shadow typical of Jan Steen’s Dutch Golden Age genre painting.