A Guard Room

A Guard RoomAlthough Teniers mostly depicted scenes of peasant life, he also painted several interiors of guardrooms, full of armour and military paraphernalia. Here, an obscured window on the left is the source of the light which falls on the drums, armour, cloth and ceiling lantern; this allows Teniers to display his skill in depicting various materials and textures. The blues, reds and whites concentrated in this area create a passage of colour, contrasting

embers smoulder on the floor

The traditional attribution to Rembrandt was rejected by Richter in 1880

While this woodland scene has nothing particularly Italian about it

droplets of water

Burke proposed that it might be a replica

16 June 1965 (lot 89)

one influencing the other

painted in the manner of Veronese

The allegory relates to the clemency of the conquerors represented in the wall decorations of the salone: the 'Continence of Seipio' and the 'Family of Darins before Alexander'

the elements were rearranged to create a single viewpoint from one of the long sides

but reinstated by Valentiner and has now been widely

he slipped into obscurity after his death