The Doctor's Visit

Jan Steen's The Doctor's Visit depicts an interior genre scene in a Dutch home. A patient lies in a four-poster bed on the left while a man in dark clothing and a tall hat sits nearby, and a servant woman in a brown dress and white apron extends a glass toward them. A large gilded frame with a painting hangs on the back wall, and a table with a richly patterned cloth sits to the right; the composition centers the group in a triangular arrangement, using warm earthy tones of browns, greens, and ochres and muted lighting characteristic of Steen's genre painting.