Dividing the Spoils
by DUCK, Jacob, Oil on panel, 46 x 74 cm
Jacob Duck was a prominent artist in Utrecht whose career overlapped the local Caravaggist movement. His Dividing the Spoils depicts a scene of soldierly revelry of a type developed by Codde and Duyster. It was executed in a period in which Duck began to depict lofty, cavernous interiors as locales for soldiers’ barracks.