As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young, 1668-1670, by Jan Steen, Dutch painting, oil on canvas. On the right, the laughing father, which is a self-portrait of Jan Steen, teaches one of his children to smoke a pipe. The paintings title, ‘As the old sing, so pipe the young’, is an old proverb, warning that a bad example leads to bad conduct. The woman on the left with the open cleavage is having her glass topped off. (BSLOC_2023_4_37)
