The Guard Room

ca. 1642 (Baroque)

104.8 cm 69.7 cm

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In the 1640s, at the end of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) pitting Protestants against Catholics, military life was a popular subject for art. Teniers represents a guard room, where soldiers passed their time between engagements. The armor and weapons on the floor or leaning a...

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Henry Walters, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Mrs. Henry Walters Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 1, 1941, lot 1187; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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