Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property from a New York Private Collection

Jacob Duck

Guardroom Interior with Sleeping Soldiers, a Raiding Party, and Looted Treasure

Auction Closed

February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a New York Private Collection

Jacob Duck

Utrecht circa 1600 - 1667

Guardroom Interior with Sleeping Soldiers, a Raiding Party, and Looted Treasure


oil on oak panel

panel: 19 ½ by 29 ¼ in.; 49.5 by 74.3 cm.

framed: 27 by 37 in.; 68.6 by 93.4 cm.

Count Johann Rudolf Czernin (1757-1845), Vienna, by 1844 (inv. no. 239);

Thence by descent to Count Eugen Karl Czernin von Chudenitz (1796-1868), Vienna;

Thence by descent within the family;

From whom acquired by Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1989;

With Otto Naumann, New York;

With Hall & Knight, New York;

From whom acquired by the present collectors.

G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandene Olbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, vol. II, Berlin 1864, p. 21 (as A. Leduc);

G.F. Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien, vol. I, Vienna 1867, p. 308, cat. no. 13 (as A. le Duc);

W. Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der Holländischen Malerei, Braunschweig 1883, p. 139;

A. von Wurzbach, Niederlandisches Kunstlerlexikon, vol. I, Amsterdam 1906, p. 433;

K. Lilienfeld, "Duck (Duyck), Jacob," in Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler, U. Thieme and F. Becker (eds.), vol. X, Leipzig 1914, p. 40;

W. Drost, Handbuch fur Kunstwissenschaft, Barockmalerei in den Germanischen ländern, Wildpark-Potsdam 1926, p. 190;

K. Wilczek, Katalog der Graf Czernin'schen Gemäldegalerie in Wien, Vienna 1936, pp. 33-34, cat. no. 239;

J.A. Spicer et. al., Masters of Light, Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London 1997, pp. 235-236, reproduced fig. 2;

N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting, Doornspijk 1998, pp. 43, 50, cat. no. 78B and 78c, (as two different paintings), reproduced pl. IV and fig. 9;

J. Rosen, "The Dutch Guardroom Scene of the Golden Age: A Definition" in Artibus et Historiae 27, no. 53 (2006), p.173 note 27;

R. Juffinger and I. Walderdorff, Czernin: Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna 2015, p. 62, reproduced;

J. Rosen, Jacob Duck c. 1600-1667, Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam 2017, p. 127, cat. no. 20A, reproduced.