Lot 75: Jacob Duck Utrecht (?) circa 1600 - 1667 , Card Players and Merrymakers Drinking in an Interior oil on panel

oil on panel

measurements 17 1/2 by 25 3/4 in. alternate measurements 44.4 by 65.4 cm.

With Hickey Art Gallery, Detroit, 1950's, whereby purchased by the parents of the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Jacob Duck was the most successful exponent of the genre of guardroom interiors (cortegaerdje), where soldiers are depicted in the company of elegantly dressed ladies, often eating and drinking together in a highly social, merry setting. The genre originated in the 1620's in Amsterdam, where it enjoyed enormous popularity, its main exponents being Willem Cornelisz. Duyster and Pieter Codde. The latter's studio produced a number of very accomplished practitioners in the genre, Jacob Duck amongst them. Duck rarely dated his pictures, but the costumes and silvery tonality of this work suggest a dating to the mid 1630's.