Guardroom Scene
Pieter Bout Flemish
Not on view
This charming and beautifully executed drawing is the work of the late 17th-century Brussels painter and draftsman, Pieter Bout. He painted views of towns, villages, ports and beaches in the tradition of Jan Brueghel. With a wealth of detail, he depicted here a scene in a guardroom. A group of well-dressed soldiers in the center plays cards. Behind them another, less elegant group, sits near the fireplace talking and drinking. Two figures on the left are sleeping, another in the foreground is putting on or removing his boots. Another bedraggled figure in the bottom right is dressing. Bouts continues the Dutch and Flemish tradition of guardroom scenes set by such artists as Anthonie Palamedesz and David Teniers earlier in the century.
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