Jacob Duck (Utrecht? c. 1600-1667) A guardroom interior with soldiers and peasants smoking, drinking and playing cards. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014

signed 'JADuck' (lower right), oil on panel, 12¾ x 15¾ in. (32.3 x 40 cm.). Estimate $50,000 – $70,000

Provenance: Duc de Berry, Galerie du Palais de l'Elysée, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Galliffet, Paris, 4-6 April 1837, lot 85 (851 FF to 'Duchatel').
(Possibly) Anonymous sale; Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 1 June 1926, lot 1035.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1966.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 10 June 1983, lot 152 ($18,000).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 2 June 1988, lot 100 ($30,000).
Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 14 December 1999, lot 74 (£34,600). with Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam, 2010, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature: E. Borger, De Hollandse kortegaard: geschilderde wachtlokalen uit de Gouden Eeuw, Zwolle, 1996, pp. 13-14, fig. 17.
L.J. De Boer, Martial arts: military themes and images in Dutch art of the golden age, Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, p. 109, fig. 63.
N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Paintings, Doornspijk, 1998, no. 85.
J. Rosen, Jacob Duck and the "Guardroom" painters: minor masters as inventors in Dutch 17th-century genre painting, Ph.D. diss., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003, no. 87, fig. 154. 

Exhibited: London, Christie's, Exhibition of Pictures for sale by private treaty in the collection of the Duc de Berry, 1834, no. 48.

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