The Interior of a Barn with an Officer
after Willem Cornelisz. Duyster (c.1598 - 1635)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on panel (oak)
Measurements
419 x 324 mm (16 1/2 x 12 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446721
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel, The Interior of a Barn with an Officer, after Willem Cornelisz. Duyster (Amsterdam c.1598 – Amsterdam 1635). A full-length portrait of a young officer, wearing a yellow doublet and green sash, stands in the centre facing left, his head turned towards the spectator; in the background a group of three soldiers are playing at dice on an upturned drum; above them is a hay-loft, and right, some wooden steps. The original painting is in the Mauritshuis, The Hague.
Provenance
Included in two anonymous sales at Christie's: 16 July 1937, lot 54, as by Pieter Codde; bought by Roland; and 17 March 1939, lot 43, as by William Duyster; bought by Barnes (see Rembrandt'/Lievens, Priest & 'Rembrandt', Mill & the Hardy), probably on behalf of Lord Bearsted, for 12 guineas;given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death.
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Willem Cornelisz. Duyster (c.1598 - 1635), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Willem Cornelisz. Duyster (c.1598 - 1635), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Pieter Jacobs Codde (Amsterdam 1599 - Amsterdam 1678), artist