Lot 70 · Old Master Pictures
A quack operating on a peasant's back in an interior
Jan Havicksz. Steen · oil on canvas
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- Estimate
- €7,000–€10,000 hammer ≈ $9,474–$13,535
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Christie's — Old Master Pictures , Amsterdam · 9 May 2007
- Dimensions
- 38 x 29.8 cm
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5566323
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 28 Jul 2026 · source ↗
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Jan Havicksz. Steen, A quack operating on a peasant's back in an interior. Christie's, 9 May 2007, lot 70. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5566323.
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Jan Havicksz. Steen, A quack operating on a peasant's back in an interior. Christie's, 9 May 2007, lot 70. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5566323.
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From the same sale Old Master Pictures · May 2007
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| A cavalry skirmish between Christians and Turks | Follower Of Simon Johannes Van Douw | €8,000–€12,000 | |
| A hunting party near a lake, a village in the distance | Pieter Jansz. Van Asch | €6,000–€8,000 | |
| An Italianate wooded landscape with a peasant on his mule driving she… | Willem De Heusch | €5,000–€7,000 | |
| The Entombment | Balthasar Beschey | €15,000–€20,000 | |
| A house in a wooded river landscape with a washerwoman in the foreground | Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker | €4,000–€6,000 | |
| Vertumnus and Pomona | Circle of Cornelis Holsteyn (Haarlem 1618-1658 Amsterdam) | €5,000–€7,000 |
Comparable results nearest sold works, same medium & price band
| Artist | Lot | vs. estimate | Result USD, incl. premium | Sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | Man Sharpening a Pen | $26,937 | Sotheby's, Apr 2023 | |
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | Twelfth Night | Sotheby's, Jan 2005 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | The Interior of an Inn | Sotheby's, Jun 2025 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | the interior of an inn, with an old man harrassing the landl | Sotheby's, Jan 2007 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | The Rommelpot Player | Sotheby's, Jun 2015 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | peasants in a landscape | Sotheby's, Dec 2018 | ||
| David Teniers The Younger | View of the Old Hôtel de Nassau in Brussels with two Falcone | Lempertz, Nov 2024 | ||
| Jan Havicksz. Steen | Peasants drinking and cutting tobacco in an inn | Sotheby's, Apr 2016 |
The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.