ID 1126212
Lot 55 | JACOB DUCK (?UTRECHT C.1600-1667 UTRECHT)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
An Ensign seated in a guardroom, with officers playing at cards and a woman smoking by a chimney
signed and dated 'J.Duck.1655' (lower center, on a piece of wood)
oil on canvas
27 1⁄8 x 23 ¾ in. (69 x 60.3 cm.)
Provenance
Jacques Lenglier (1732-1814), France; his sale, Chez M.M. Lebrun and Brullé, Paris, 24 April 1786, lot 97, as F. le Duc.
Marie Françoise Lenglier, neé Thomazet, (d. 1788), her deceased sale; Lebrun, Paris, 10 March 1788, lot 121, as Jean le Duc, where acquired by,
The Fontaine collection.
(Possibly) with Alfred Stange, Paris, July 1950.
Art Market, Paris, circa 1950, where acquired by the following,
Private collector, and by whom sold,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 8 November 1999, lot 95, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
J. Castagno, Old Masters: Signatures and Monograms, 1400-born 1800, London, 1996, p. 72, signature illustrated in facsimile.
M.C.C. Kersten, 'Interieurstukken met soldaten tussen circa 1625 en 1660. Een verkenning', in Beelden van een Strijd, Oorlog en kunst vooe de Vrede van Munster 1621-1648, Delft, 1998, p. 212, note 104.
N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting, W. Liedke ed., Ghent, 1998, pp. 33, 37, 64 and 156, no. 66, fig. 2.
W. Liedke, A View of Delft. Vermeer and his contemporaries, Zwolle, 2000, p. 172, fig. 232
J. Rosen, Soldiers at Leisure: The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age, Amsterdam, 2010, p. 122 and 125, fig. 105.
J. Rosen, Jacob Duck C. 1600-1667: Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam, 2017, pp. 152-153, fig 47.
| Artist: | Jacob Duck (1600 - 1667) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Jacob Duck (1600 - 1667) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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