Dutch painter
Amsterdam circa 1605/06 – 1647 Amsterdam
A guardroom interior scene
Oil on panel : 38,2 X 45,8 cm
Monogrammed and dated bottom left “PQ / 1639”
Frame : 51,2 X 59,6 cm
Provenance : sold at Sotheby’s Amsterdam, 11/11/97 for 70.800 DG = 32.056 €
Our painting is registered at the RKD The Hague, under the number 6503
Pieter Jansz. Quast often painted satirical scenes. Here he has brilliantly captured in just a few monochrome colours the resignation of a nation too long at war. One can fully appreciate the genius of Quast, now that our painting has been cleaned from its old, smothering varnish.
All my paintings stand fully documented on my website:
https://www.jeanmoust.com/categories/battle-scenes-and-military-subjects/quast-pieter-jansz-2025/a-guardroom-interior-scene-5812680