Sick woman
- Artist
- Jan Steen
- Date
- c.1665
- Style
- Baroque
- Genre
- Genre painting
- Location
- Rijksmuseum
The painting titled "Sick Woman," also known as "The Lovesick Maiden," is a Baroque genre painting created around 1660 by Jan Steen. This oil on canvas depicts a young woman visibly suffering from love-sickness, surrounded by a doctor and a maid-servant attending to her. Steen’s lively storytelling and humorous tone are characteristic of Dutch genre painting, capturing everyday life with vivid detail and wit. The piece is part of the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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