Artist: Jacob Duck (1600 - 1667)
Nationality: Dutch
Movement: Baroque
Media: Painting,Drawing
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Biography:
Jacob Duck was born and trained in Utrecht and was an apprentice in the Guild of Saint Luke beginning in 1621. He became a master a decade later and established a presence in Utrecht, Haarlem, and Wijk bij Durrstede before settling in The Hague in 1656. With the onset of the Thirty Years’ War, Duck began creating paintings and etchings of soldiers, a genre which became a popular around that time. He also depicted contemporary scenes that depicted tavern scenes and held moral symbolism.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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The Procuress, ca. 1630-35 Jacob Duck (Dutch, born about 1600, died 1667)Oil on wood; Oval,
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Artist: Jacob Duck Title: Soldiers Arming Themselves Date: about 1630 Medium: oil on panel Dimensions:
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Interior with Soldiers and Women
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Jacob A. Duck - Soldier with a girl c. 1650-1660 oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum Dutch
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Jacob Duck - Soldiers Arming Themselves mid 1630's oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Arts Dutch
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Jacob A. Duck - The Game of Skittles c. 1635-40 oil on oak panel The Detroit Institute of Art Dutch
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Jean Francois de Troy - Duck-shooting in a wood n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Ohara Shoson, Diving Duck, 1912
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Chi"i Pai-shih, A Duck, 19th - 20th century
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William Charles Frederick Gillam, Mallard Duck, 1930
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Ernest Haskell, Doomed Duck, ca. early 20th century
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Henry Wolf, The Duck Pond, 19th - 20th century
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Pablo Picasso, Edition Picasso Flower in Duck, 1953
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Charles-FranÁois Daubigny, Le marais aux canards (The Duck Marsh), 1862
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Edward Frank Gillett, Duck Shooting, 19th - 20th century
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Jacob Duck - A Street Scene with Knife Grinder and Elegant Couple c. 1630-1640 oil on oak panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dutch
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Horatio Nelson Poole, Duck Pond, Honolulu, 1920
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Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth, Studies of Duck and Chickens (Frohe Weihnacht 1958!/ Merry Christmas 1958!), 1958
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Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot, Plate of sketches (Head of girl, duck, and swan), 19th century
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Maum Duck, South Carolina
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Jacob Eichholtz - Jacob Leman c. 1808 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Artist: Totoya Hokkei Title: Mandarin Duck and Drake: A Surimono Date: about 1830 Medium: color
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Akhenaten Sacrificing a Duck, ca. 1353-1336 B.C.E.; Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten; New Kingdom EgyptianLimestone;
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Pan box in the shape of a duck, late 17th–early 18th century Deccan, IndiaTin alloy
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Spheroid jar with crocodiles and duck Nubian Meroitic Period 2nd century A.D. Pottery Height: 27.94
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Jacob Andreas Friderich (Fridrich), Caspar Jacob Huth, 17th - 18th century
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Model duck Egyptian Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5, reign of Djedkare Isesi, 2415-2371 B.C. Egypt, (Giza)
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Jacob Maris, Harbor of Amsterdam, 1872
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Water dropper in the form of a duck Korean Koryo, 12th century Korea Glazed stoneware
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Container in the shape of a trussed duck Egyptian New Kingdom, 1550-1070 B.C. Egypt Wood
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John Wesley Jarvis - Jacob Houseman 1809 oil on wood panel The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Francisco Antolinez y Sarabia - Jacob and Rachel 1665-70 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Spanish
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Jacob Maris, View of Old Delft, circa 1865
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Model offering duck Egyptian Old Kingdom Dynasty 5, 2500-2350 B.C. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster) Height x
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Fowl case with mummified duck Egyptian New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep I, 1514-1493
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Jacob Landau, Is, 1964
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Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, A Cabin on the Hill, 17th century
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Nicolas-Guy Brenet - Isaac Blessing Jacob 1768 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art French
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Hendrick ter Brugghen - Jacob reproaching Laban 1627 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Amedeo Modigliani - Max Jacob (1876-1944) c. 1916-1917 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum Italian

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (12)
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San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: The Duck Stamp Competition
Public awareness that waterfowl populations were threatened led Congress to enact the Migratory Bird Conservation Act in 1929. This law was largely symbolic, since it contained no fu...
Helsinki City Art Museum: Duck lithographs - Marko Leppala's collection
Carl Barks made his career first at the Disney studios and, from 1942, as a cartoonist for Western Publishing which had a license to publish Disney comics. In the early 1940s Donald Duck was still a lazy, incoherently quacking hothead. Barks...
PETA: 25th Annual Gala Fundraiser in Paramount Studios
Both artworks are luminated with striking pastel color combinations blended into more intense color hues as Debra creates a harmonious mood in both works. Rainbow Colt represents a mother and baby horse with a vivid abstract style, yet, it tenderly ...
Minneapolis INstitute of Arts: Quality Control: Ruthann Godollei, Alexa Horochowski, Lee Anne Swanson, and Carolyn Swiszcz
Ruthann Godollei decodes patterns of family and social dysfunction in sparse, scratchboard drawings and monoprints. Alexa Horochowski scrutinizes the institution of marriage in a mu...
Artery - Artist Cooperative of Davis: Fabric Art: On and Off the Wall - Marjan Kluepfel and Connie Taxiera
Marjan has lived around the world (the Netherlands, Australia, Hawaii, and Southern US). The natural wonders of these locations inspire her art quilts. Using many techniques including fabric dyeing, painting, printing, pleating, and machine embroi...
Chisenhale Gallery: Shen Yuan: un matin du monde
Un Matin Du Monde appears to be a memento of the artist's Chinese hometown, directly transplanted into Chisenhale's vast East End space. Howeve...
New Museum: Time of Our Lives
Using a remarkable variety of techniques and strategies, the artists in The Time of Our Lives examine such pertinent topics as the invisibility of the aging body (Jacqueline Hayden, Suzanne Lacy, ...
Lump gallery/projects: Off Season: Becca Albee
Rinks (1-5): Off Season are five photographs of outdoor ice skating rinks in Maine photographed in August. The rinks are overgrown and reveal their un-maintained state in the form of duck ponds, unkempt fields and weed-fillled cement slabs. ...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: From Mickey to the Grinch: Art of the Animated Film
Among the nearly 160 works comprising the exhibition, all drawn from the collection of animator George Nicholas (1910-1996), are animation cels, animation and concept drawings, and model sheets – the all-important prototypes that ensured each char...
Monkey Mia Visitors Centre: Michelle Wardley: Inaugural Exhibition
Visitors to Western Australia traveling up the coast are encouraged to make the journey to WA’s only world heritage area and are welcome to attend the cocktail opening event by contacting Michelle directly on 0438 333 446 to RSVP. Discount flight...
ODC Theater: STRANGE LOVE
In what will be their first full production in over three years, Fellow Travelers Performance Group will premier works developed in conversations and collaborations while fulfilling Djerassi residencies.  Fellow Travelers Performance Group is a mo...
Gerald Peters Gallery: Cast and Carved: American Sculpture 1850-1950
Over 60 artists will be featured in the exhibition including Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederic Remington, Paul Manship and Isamu Noguchi. Works on view range in size from tabletop to monumental, and are composed of a variety of materials, includin...

Further Artwork and Information:

Jacob Duck (Getty Museum)
Jacob Duck Online
Jacob Duck (1600 - 1667) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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Jacob Duck Card Players and Merrymakers
ARC :: Jacob Duck (1600-1667) :: Page 1 of 1
Jacob Duck Soldiers Arming Themselves Oil Painting - Tamsquare Art
CGFA- Jacob Duck: Sleeping Woman
Jacob Duck Card Players and Merrymakers Oil Painting - Tamsquare Art

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