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Attributed to Willem Cornelisz. Duyster Amsterdam 1599 - 1635
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Description
- Willem Cornelisz. Duyster
- Soldiers in a Guardroom
- oil on panel
Provenance
Werner Dahl, Dusseldorf, 1904;
His sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller & Co., October 17, 1905, lot 43;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, January 12, 1989, lot 113;
There purchased by the present collector.
Exhibited
Dusseldorf, Kunstpalast, Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1904, no. 299 (as dated 1632).
Literature
E. Plietzsch, Hollandische und Flamische Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1960, p. 31 ff;
Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, Catalogue of Flemish and Dutch Paintings, 1972, p. 34, listed under no. 445;
P. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984, p. 198, under cat. no. 42 (as a copy).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, Catalogue of Flemish and Dutch Paintings, 1972, p. 34, listed under no. 445;
P. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984, p. 198, under cat. no. 42 (as a copy).
Catalogue Note
Two versions by Duyster of this composition are known, one in the John G. Johnson Collection in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (considered the prime version), and another in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.