Interior of a Guardroom / David Teniers the Younger
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1965/1.185
- Title
- Interior of a Guardroom
- Artist
- David Teniers the Younger
- Artist Nationality
- Flemish
- Artist Life Dates
- 1610-1690
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- Object Creation Date
- 1635-1645
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Belgium (nation)
- Flanders (region)
- Antwerpen (province)
- Antwerp (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Belgium (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Flanders (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Antwerpen (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Antwerp (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Baroque
- Inscription
- Inscribed l.r.: D TENIERS
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 75.57 cm x 100.01 cm x 6.35 cm (29 3/4 in. x 39 3/8 in. x 2 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- panel painting
- Physical Description
- Groups of men gamble, smoke, and drink in a dark guardroom. In the left foreground a seated man wearing a red sash lights his white clay pipe, while his companion pauses his smoking to listen to a man standing next to him. The red of the smoker's sash is repeated in the flag and fabrics strewn about in the right foreground, which form part of a still-life of weapons, musical instruments, and glinting armor heaped together against the wall. Between these brightly lit foreground vignettes the scene recedes into the darkened interior where a group of five men gather about a table to gamble.
- Subject Matter
- This painting depicts with striking realism an imagined scene of civic guards at leisure. The realistic impression made by the painting depends in part upon the painstaking rendition of objects and details throughout the room: the ceramic jugs, a wooden table, a piece of crumpled paper, the dull glint of a lantern near the ceiling, and the tour-de-force still-life of military equipment all contribute to the painting's seeming veracity. The fact that the men are engaged in everyday activities of smoking, drinking, gambling and conversing contributes to the impression that we are looking upon an actual scene that Teniers simply transcribed with his brush.
- Secondary Keywords
- armor groupings
- building divisions
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- membranophones
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- weapons and ammunition
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3504 x 2479
- File Size
- 286 KB
- Record
- 1965/1.185
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"Interior of a Guardroom; David Teniers the Younger." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1965-sl-1.185/1965_1.185.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
