Guardroom (David Teniers)
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The Guard Room is a 1642 oil-on-panel painting by
National Museum of Sweden.[3]
It combines a still life of military uniforms, pistols, spears, sabres, shields and a drum in the foreground with a genre scene of military life in the middle ground and a battle scene in the background.[4] It was painted the year when Francisco de Melo, new ruler of the Spanish Netherlands, twice defeated a French army, thus briefly holding back their advance on Antwerp. To some extent it anticipates his 1643 The Oude Voetboog Guild in the Grote Markt.[5]
The work's provenance is unknown until 16 April 1738, when it was auctioned from the collection of
Josephine Beauharnais, who kept it at the Château de Malmaison. It was then sold to Alexander I of Russia with thirty-seven other works from Malmaison in 1814.[1][7]
References
- ^ a b "Guardroom". hermitagemuseum.org.
- ^ "The Guard Room". The Walters Art Museum. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ "Unknown artist, Guards of a Camp". collection.nationalmuseum.se. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ (in Russian) Бабина Н. П., Грицай Н. И. Фламандская живопись XVII—XVIII веков. Каталог коллекции. — СПб.: Изд-во Государственного Эрмитажа, 2005. — С. 456.
- ^ "Государственный Эрмитаж. — Тенирс, Давид Младший. "Караульня"" (in Russian).
- ^ Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderijen met derzelver pryzen. Gerard Hoet. 16 March 2024. p. 508.
- ^ Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), page xx