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Jakob
Duke

Netherlands • 1600−1660

Biography and information

considered one of the pioneers of the genre of military scenes, the so-called "guardhouse". In 2002, thanks to the financial support of the Foundation Wilhelmina E. Jansen (the Netherlands) in the State Hermitage, the restoration of paintings of the Dutch artist of the seventeenth century, Jacob Duke "Military Park". This is an unusually large canvas may be the most monumental corps de garde in the Dutch genre painting of the seventeenth century.