Pieter Quast (circa 1605/06 - 1647), Interior Scene In A Guardroom

Pieter Jansz. Quast
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

Over 1 year in our stock: enjoy our lower price and absolute transparency

Our cost price 7.318 €
= acquisition price 6.186 € + expenses 1.132 € (shipment 215 € and import tax 372 € and restoration 545 €)

  Our old price 11.000 €
Our new net price 10.000 €
Our net export price 9.535 €

PieterJansz. Quast often painted satirical scenes. Here he has brilliantly capturedin just a few monochrome colours the resignation of a nation too long at war. Onecan fully appreciate the genius of Quast, now that our painting has beencleaned from its old, smothering varnish.

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