Soldiers at Reveille

Artist Ludolf de Jongh Dutch, 1616–1679

Datecirca 1650

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions18 13/16 x 25 9/16 in. (47.8 x 64.9 cm)
Frame: 29 3/4 x 36 1/4 x 3 3/4 in. (75.6 x 92.1 x 9.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.46

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ProvenanceCreated Rotterdam, Netherlands, ca. 1650. [J. Pompe van Meerdervoort, Zoeterwoude, Netherlands, May 19, 1780, no. 45, as Ludolf de Jong]; [Johannes Engelmann, Haarlem, Netherlands, May 16, 1782, no. 12, as Ludolf de Jongh]. Eastman Johnson (1824–1906), New York; Henry Blank (1872–1949), Glen Ridge, NJ, by 1926; [estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, November 16, 1949, no. 34, as Pieter de Hooch]; [John Nicholson Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952, as Pieter de Hooch.
Published ReferencesCatalogus van een fraaye verzameling konstige in plaisante schilderyen…(auction catalogue) (Zoeterwoude: J. Pompe van Meerdervoort, May 19, 1780), lot 45, as L. de Jong.

W[illiam] R. Valentiner, Art in America 15, no. 1 (December 1926), 52, footnote 1.

W[illiam] R. Valentiner, Art in America 15, no. 2 (Feb., 1927), no. 1 as Soldiers in a Tavern.

Clotilde Brière-Misme, "Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 15, no. 1 (June 1927), 370, illus. 366.

William R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch: Des Meisters Gemälde, (Klassiker der Kunst) (Stuttgart:Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt,1929), xv (footnote), 266, S.5, illus. 5. English translation: Pieter de Hooch: The Master's Paintings, intro. by Alice M. Sharkey (New York: E. Weyhe, 1930), xiii (footnote), 266, P. 5 (as Soldiers Before Departure).

F. van Thienen, Pieter de Hooch (Amsterdam, 1945), 7, 9.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no 53 (as by Pieter de Hooch), illus. (b-w).

William R. Valentiner, "The Raleigh Museum's First 200 Paintings: Notes on the Collection," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 48, 91, illus. 48.

C. Gilbert, Seventeenth Century Paintings from the Low Countries (Waltham, MA, 1966), no. 19.

R. E. Fleischer, "Ludolf de Jongh and the Early Work of Pieter de Hooch," Oud Holland 91, no. 1 (1977), 57-62, illus. 62.

Peter C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch (complete edition with Catalogue Raisonné) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press (Phaidon), 1980), cat. no. D21, illus. 141 (as probably de Jongh, as Soldiers Before Reveille).

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

Roland E. Fleischer, Ludolf de Jongh (1616-1679) Painter of Rotterdam (Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1989), 68-69, illus. fig. 78.

Michel P. van Maarseveen, Jos W.L. Hilkhuijsen,and Jacques Dane, eds., Beelden van een strijd: Oorlog en kunst vóór de Vrede van Munster, 1621-1648 (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1998), illus. 211.

Nanette Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1998), no. 83A, 65, illus. fig. 46.

Alison McNeil Kettering, "Gerard ter Borch and the Modern Manner," in Gerard ter Borch by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (exhibition catalogue) (New York: American Federation of Arts; Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2004), noted and illus. (b-w) 26, fig. 9 (catalogue only, not in show.)

Eveline Sint Nicolaas En Harm Stevens, "Kolders. Van modieus militair kledingstuk tot slagveldreliek," in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 54, no. 3 (2006), 287, illus. (color) 286.

Wayne Franits, Pieter de Hooch: A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2006), mentioned 9-10, illus. (color) 10, fig. 6.

Dennis P. Weller, "Old Masters in the New World: The Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 1909 and its Legacy," in Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in American, 1609-2009, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Benjamin Schmidt, and Annette Stott, eds. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008), mentioned 259.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 22, illus. (color) 94.

Jochai Rosen, Soldiers at Leisure: The Guardroom Scene in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010), briefly discussed 99, illus. (color) 96, fig. 82.

Pieter de Hooch in Delft (Delft: Museum Prinsenhof, 2019), 37, illus. (color) 37, fig 7.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, public auction sale, November 11-16, 1949, "Notable Dutch & Flemish Paintings of the XVII Century... Estate of the Late Henry Blank," cat. no. 34.

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age," December 20, 1995-May 26, 1996.
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