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Merry Company Party Duck 17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Flemish school1630-1660
1630-1660
About the Item
Jacob Duck (Utrecht, 1600 - 1667) attributable
Merry company in an interior
Oil painting on canvas
63 x 51 cm./ In antique box frame 80 x 70 cm.
On the back of the old frame label XV international art exhibition of the city of Venice, 1926 (?)
The scene depicted belongs to a pictorial subject much appreciated in Flemish painting, called the 'Merry Companies', where a group of men and women often sumptuously dressed rejoiced in a festive atmosphere intent on playing, drinking and making music, that is, the most typical pastimes of the upper middle class.
In our case it is a wonderful work attributable to Jacob Duck (Utrecht, 1600 - 1667), master in the representation of scenes of everyday life, rendered with an incredible pictorial refinement, and capable of giving life to his characters, shaped by a game of masterful lights.
His painting style, as is clearly evident when observing this scene, is striking for its high level of theatricality, and is a unique blend of humor and sexual innuendo, traits that he later managed to impart to the next generation of Dutch genre painting.
We are in front of a festive gathering of young knights with their weapons placed on the floor, found themselves in a classic tavern of the time, where it was possible to enjoy the pleasures of life, playing 'tric-trac', a typical seventeenth-century Dutch board game , drinking, smoking and entertaining obliging ladies.
On the one hand it is a Dutch representation of middle-class entertainment habits in which drinking, smoking and gambling had become simple pastimes, but on the other hand it can be seen as a moral warning against the dangers of free time.
The festive air that transpires from the painting brings with it a certain moralistic subtext: it does not seem to simply celebrate the pleasures of socializing among wealthy young people, but actually shows a more dissolute morality, linked to drunkenness, vice and lust.
In each painting we find different figures, in our case the man spying from a window or two of the party participants looking towards us with a mocking smile, whose function is probably to warn the viewer to focus his attention about the details of the scene.
To support the attribution, a comparison with the painting ''Interior with triktrak players smoking and drinking'' from around 1650 (oil on canvas, 63 x 51), published in the RDK archive, inv. 47988 (Kunsthandel Moatti Fine Arts, Paris), different from ours due to tiny details.
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- Attributed to:Jacob Duck (utrecht, 1600 - 1667)
- Creation Year:1630-1660
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 27.56 in (70 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Riva del Garda, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU988114387052
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