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Guardroom Scene with Spoils of War
Guardroom Scene with Spoils of War

Guardroom Scene with Spoils of War

Artist Jacob Duck Dutch, circa 1600–1667
Datecirca 1635–1640
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions17 x 18 7/8 in. (43.2 x 47.9 cm)
Frame: 26 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (67.3 x 73 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.38
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated Haarlem or Utrecht, ca. 1635–1640. C. Ernst Hölscher and Johan Strumpf (1863–ca. 1918), Berlin (?), by 1908; Johan Strumpf; [his sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, May 7, 1918, no. 71, as Plündernde Soldaten by Jacob Duck]; Carel Joseph Anton A. Begeer (1883–1956), Utrecht; [his sale, Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, April 27, 1920, no. 1, as La Suppliante by Jacob Duck]; Antonie M. Vroeg, Mookerheide, Netherlands, Clarens-Montreux, Switzerland, Cap Martin, France, and later, Providence, RI, possibly by 1935; [consigned to Schaeffer Galleries, New York, March 1951]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
Published ReferencesMax Gg. Zimmerman, Nederländische Bilder des XVII. Jahrhunderts in der Sammlung Hölscher-Stumpf (Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1908), discussed 3.

"Galerie Alter Meister Geheimrat Joh. Stumpf, Berlin" (auction catalogue) (Berlin: Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions Haus, May 7, 1918), no. 71, illus., as Plündernde Soldaten by Jacob Duck.

"Catalogue de Tableaux Anciens, Meubles, Porcelaines de la Chine et du Japon...provenant de la collection Carel A. Begeer à Utrecht" (auction catalogue) (Amsterdam & Dordrecht: A. Mak, April 27–28, 1920), no. 1, illus, as La Suppliante by Jacob Duck.

Helen Comstock, "The Connoisseur in America" The Connoisseur, 150, no. 605 (July, 1962), 206.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 45.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 52, illus. (color) 53.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 100.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), briefly discussed 8.

Lynn Hunt, ed., The Challenge of the West: Peoples and Cultures from the Stone Age to the Global Age (D. O. Heath and Company, Massachusetts, 1995), illus. (color) 557.

Chuck Twardy, "Dutch Gold Sees the Light Again," Raleigh: The News and Observer (February 9, 1996, "What's Up" insert), illus. (color) 21.

Ellen Borger, De Hollandse kortegaard: Geschilderde wachtlokalen uit de Gouden Eeuw (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1996), 16, 17, illus. 16.

Nanette Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1998), no. 83A.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 12, illus. (color) 53.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for Guardroom Scene with Spoils of War, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 218, illus. (color) 219.

Jochai Rosen, Jacob Duck (c. 1600–1667): Catalogue Raisonne (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017), cat. no. 4 (as Guardroom Scene), illus. (color).

Ronni Baer et al, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer (exhibition catalogue) (Boston: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 2015), illus. (color)

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 52, illus. (color) 53.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, briefly discussed 8.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age," December 20- May 26, 1996.
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