Soldiers at leisure : the guardroom scene in Dutch genre paintings of the Golden Age /
Rosen, Jochai.
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,
c2010.
The guardroom, also know as 'cortegaerdje' was a very successful type within genre painting in the Dutch Golden Age. The scenes of soldiers who in their free time play cards, sleep or have an erotic affair. During the time of war in the Low Countries these guardroom scenes spread into the fast growing Amsterdam of the 1620s and out into other Dutch and Flemish cities, and also later over its boarders. In the nineteenth century the guardroom scenes became again popular. "Soldiers at leisure" is the first study that defines this type and traces it history and development.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-208) and index.
The guardroom, also know as 'cortegaerdje' was a very successful type within genre painting in the Dutch Golden Age. The scenes of soldiers who in their free time play cards, sleep or have an erotic affair. During the time of war in the Low Countries these guardroom scenes spread into the fast growing Amsterdam of the 1620s and out into other Dutch and Flemish cities, and also later over its boarders. In the nineteenth century the guardroom scenes became again popular. "Soldiers at leisure" is the first study that defines this type and traces it history and development.
The guardroom scene in context. The soldier in early modern Europe ; The war in the Low Countries ; The soldier in early modern European art ; Pieter Bruegel and the Flemish scenes of looting and battle -- The birth of a genre theme. From merry company to guardroom scene ; Pieter Codde ; The followers of Pieter Codde's merry company scene ; The crystallisation of the guardroom scene ; The order to march ; William Duyster ; Pieter Potter -- The burlesque guardroom scene of Utrecht. The brothel in Netherlandish art ; The Caravaggisti low-life scene ; The martialism of the Caravaggisti ; Jacob Duck ; Sleep and vigilance ; Maerten stoop -- A military theme for the aware bourgeois. Pieter Quast and the alienation of the peasant : Benjamin Cuyp ; The civic-guard portrait ; Caught between genres : Rembrandt's Nightwatch ; Simon Kick and the gentrified guardroom scene ; Class awareness and the guardroom scene -- The guardroom scene domesticated. Anthonie Palamedes ; Masculinity pacified ; Jan Olis ; Guardroom scenes by other seventeenth-century Dutch painters ; David Teniers the Younger -- The revival of the guardroom scene in the nineteenth century. The Low Countries in the eighteenth century ; The Low Countries in the nineteenth century ; Ernest Meissonier and the guardroom scene in France ; Spain ; Germany ; Italy ; Great Britain.
Genre painting, Dutch
Soldiers in art.