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Lot Essay
Already unpacked is a silver ewer and basin and a nautilus cup; a soldier holds up a string of pearls. An officer in a comparable pose in profile recurs in the picture in the Basel Kunstmuseum, in which a female companion also holds up a string a pearls. For a commentary on the development of the guardroom theme, of which Duyster was an early exponent, see Sutton (op. cit., pp. XXXVI-XXXVIII).
One of Duyster's finest paintings, to be considered, according to Sutton, an early work executed c. 1625-30. As none of Duyster's small, extant oeuvre (he died aged just over thirty-five) is dated, it is impossible to provide a precise dating for the present picture. The textures in this picture particularly of the costumes of the soldiers in sharp focus in the foreground are finely rendered bearing out Philips Angels' praise of Duyster's skill in rendering silks in his Lof der Schilderkunst of 1642.
One of Duyster's finest paintings, to be considered, according to Sutton, an early work executed c. 1625-30. As none of Duyster's small, extant oeuvre (he died aged just over thirty-five) is dated, it is impossible to provide a precise dating for the present picture. The textures in this picture particularly of the costumes of the soldiers in sharp focus in the foreground are finely rendered bearing out Philips Angels' praise of Duyster's skill in rendering silks in his Lof der Schilderkunst of 1642.