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Jan Steen's "Beware of Luxury"
Jan Steen's "Beware of Luxury"
Published on June 19, 2025

Only one subject of this Jan Steen work is looking at the viewer. Can you spot her? That's right. It's the licentious-looking Dutch lady smack-dab in the center with her hand creeping up the trousers of her inebriated-looking boy toy. "Beware of Luxury" was completed in 1663 and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.