Jan Miense Molenaer

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/molenaer/index.html |title=Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000–1900) |publisher=Wga.hu |access-date=2014-06-25}} 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, {{ill|Handjeklap|nl}}, 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).{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/molenaer/index.html |title=Kren and Marx Comments on The Denying of Peter'' in the Web Gallery of Art, www.wga.hu |publisher=Wga.hu |access-date=2014-06-25}}{{cite book|title=Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age|year=2002|publisher=Hudson Hills|isbn=9780882599885|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7XnCEEjJr4C|author=Dennis P. Weller, North Carolina Museum of Art|author2=Cynthia Von Bogendorf Rupprath |author3=Mariët Westermann |access-date=27 June 2013}}

File:Jan Miense Molenaer - Two Boys and a Girl Making Music - WGA16091.jpg

• 1629 – The Dentist, Oil on panel, (North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh){{cite web |url=https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artwork/the-dentist/ |title=The Dentist |publisher=North Carolina Museum of Art |access-date=2019-05-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224154947/https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/artwork/the-dentist/ |archive-date=2019-02-24 |url-status=live }}
• 1629 – Two Boys and a Girl Making Music, Oil on canvas, (National Gallery, London){{cite web |url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG5416 |title=Jan Miense Molenaer | Two Boys and a Girl making Music | NG5416 | The National Gallery, London |publisher=Nationalgallery.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507111724/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG5416 |archive-date=2009-05-07 |url-status=dead }}
• 1630 – A Quack and His Assistant, Oil on canvas, (Private Collection)
• 1630 – The Duet, Oil on canvas, (Seattle Art Museum, Seattle){{cite web|url=http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/SAMcollection/code/emuseum.asp?style=Browse¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=Molenaer&quicksearch=Molenaer&newvalues=1&newstyle=single&newcurrentrecord=1 |title=The Duet, ca. 1629|access-date=July 23, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230333/http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/SAMcollection/code/emuseum.asp?style=Browse¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=Molenaer&quicksearch=Molenaer&newvalues=1&newstyle=single&newcurrentrecord=1 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}
• 1630/32 – A Young Man playing a Theorbo and a Young Woman playing a Cittern, Oil on canvas, (National Gallery, London){{cite web |url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG1293 |title=Jan Miense Molenaer | A Young Man and Woman making Music | NG1293 | The National Gallery, London |publisher=Nationalgallery.org.uk |access-date=2014-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528032950/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng1293 |archive-date=2009-05-28 |url-status=dead }}
• 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){{cite web |url=http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/49_11_19.html |title=Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Richmond, Virginia |publisher=Vmfa.state.va.us |access-date=2014-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115160236/http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/collections/49_11_19.html |archive-date=2009-01-15 }}
• 1633/35 – Battle Between Carnival and Lent, Oil on wood, (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis){{cite web |url=http://www.ima-art.org/provenanceDetail.asp?SID=0992FA686360474BA257C520BDCF5E20&TombstoneID=384&letter=M |title=Archived copy |website=www.ima-art.org |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929004304/http://www.ima-art.org/provenanceDetail.asp?SID=0992FA686360474BA257C520BDCF5E20&TombstoneID=384&letter=M |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}
• 1635 – Card Players, Oil on panel, (Currier Museum of Art, Manchester){{cite web|url=http://collections.currier.org/Obj827$1052|title=EmbARK Web Kiosk|website=collections.currier.org}}
• 1635 – Young Smoker, Oil on panel, (Accademia Carrara, Bergamo){{cite web|url=http://www.lacarrara.it/catalogo/58mr00063|title=Giovane fumatore Molenaer Jan Miense 58MR00063 – Accademia Carrara di Bergamo Pinacoteca|work=Accademia Carrara di Bergamo Pinacoteca}}
• 1635 – Family Making Music, Oil on panel, (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem){{cite web|url=http://www.franshalsmuseum.collectionconnection.nl/FHM/franshals_e.aspx?p=full&iFirst=67&c=ludionwebsite&s=dateOfCreation |title=Molenaer, Jan Miense, Haarlem 1610/11 - Haarlem 1668, Family Making Music, c. 1635 |access-date=July 23, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927140720/http://www.franshalsmuseum.collectionconnection.nl/FHM/franshals_e.aspx?p=full&iFirst=67&c=ludionwebsite&s=dateOfCreation |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}
• 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){{cite web |url=http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=35753&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=Molenaer&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Paintings&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1 |title=Collections | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |publisher=Mfa.org |access-date=2014-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027002507/http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=35753&coll_keywords=&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=Molenaer&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=Paintings&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=1&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1 |archive-date=2007-10-27 }}

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• [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/molenaer/ wga.hu], List of painters in the Web Gallery of Art
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100413111948/http://www.kunstpedia.com/articles/728/1/Political-Iconography-in-a-Painting-by-Jan-Miense-Molenaer/Page1.html Political Iconography in a Painting by Jan Miense Molenaer]
• [http://www.pubhist.com/person/147/jan-miense-molenaer Works and literature on Jan Miense Molenaer]

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