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Jacob Duck
1600 - Utrecht 1667
“Tickled sleep” (bordello scene with sleeping couple).
Oil on Panel, 24.1 x 19.7 cm
Indistinctly signed lower center on the foot warmer: DVCK
c. 1650-1655
ENQUIRIES
Provenance
John Bramston Stone, Esq., London, 1888;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 7 June 1912, lot 8;
With Charles Brunner, Paris, 1919-1924;
J. Bruinse, Paris, May1924 (the painting was examined for him by
Dr. C: Hofstede de Groot);
Anonymous sale, Lucerne, 18 June 1927, lot 227;
Mrs. Von Buch, Buenos Aires;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 31 October 1980, lot 125;
With Hoogsteder-Naumann, New York, 1982;
Peter Eliot, New York, 1984-2002;
Eric Noah, New York, 2003;
Sale Sotheby’s New York, 31 January 2013, lot 210, reproduced;
Private Collection USA
N. Salomon, Dreamers, Idlers and other Dozers: Aspects of Sleep in Dutch Art, Dissertation, New York University, 1984, p.121, fig. 107;
O. Naumann, in P. Sutton (ed.), Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia 1984, cat. no. 38, pp. 192-3, reproduced;
P. Hecht, “London Royal Academy, Masters of Dutch Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting” (Exhibition Review), The Burlington Magazine 126, pp. 649-651, fig. 47;
A. Jensen Adams, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, New York 1988, cat. no. 15;
N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting, Doornspijk 1998, p. 148, cat. no. 31, pp.83-84, reproduced in color, plate VI, and fig. 74;
A.J. Adams, “Money and the Regulation of Desire: The Prostitute and the Marketplace in Seventeenth-Century Holland”, in Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, University of Pennsylvania, 1999, p. 229, 232;
B. Rothstein, “Beer and Loafing in Antwerp”, Art History 35, 2012, no. 5, pp. 902-903, fig. 8;
Jochai Rosen, Jacob Duck c.1600-1667, Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam, 2017, no. 94, reproduced p.70 and 198.
Exhibition
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussicher Kulturbesitz; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, 18 March-18 November 1984,
no. 38, reproduced pl. 40;
New York, National Academy od Design, 1988, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections (cat. by A.J. Adams), no. 15, p. 47, illustrated p.32.
