Steen's great works bring smiles.(Arts)(Art) The Washington Times | April 28, 1996| | COPYRIGHT 1996 News World Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Dutch artist Jan Steen looks like a jolly fellow who painted equally jolly people. He laughs out at us in several paintings, including two self-portraits, in the National Gallery of Art's exhibit "Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller." Opening today, it is the first major showing of Steen's work in the United States.

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., the National Gallery curator of Northern baroque paintings who organized the recent wildly successful Johannes Vermeer exhibition, has brought together some 50 of Steen's best genre scenes, portraits, and religious and ...

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