A ?Kortegaardje?: an Officer Entering a Guardroom and Soldiers Playing Cards
at a Table


Signed centre right: LD (in compendium) Jongh


Oil on panel
43 by 62.3 cm.

Ludolf de Jongh is considered to be one of the most versatile Dutch painters
of the 17th century producing portraits, genre scenes, guardroom scenes, landscapes,
hunting scenes, town views and biblical and mythological themes. In fact
most known paintings by De Jongh belong to his Rotterdam years, set between
1642 and the early 1660s. Over these twenty years our painter evolved from
peasant, tavern and guardroom scenes to elegant, even aristocratic subjects,
which he must have painted in Hillegersberg. During the 1650s de Jongh was
one of the leading painters of Rotterdam. After 1660 it is thought that he painted
less and less due to his other activities, first as a businessman, later as an officer
(major) in the local home guard and finally as sheriff in Hillegersberg.


Most Dutch guardroom scenes show soldiers either ?killing time? (playing cards or
dice, or smoking a pipe, sleeping or drinking), flirting with prostitutes, inspecting
their weapons or showing their booty to a superior. In French a guardroom is
called ?un corps?de?garde?, which in Dutch evolved towards ?een kortegaerden?
or ?kortegaardje?.


Our painting was unknown to Roland E. Fleischer, author of the monograph on
de Jongh (1989). Actually the author knew of only one guardroom scene by de
Jongh, so our painting is an important addition. The author dated that painting
also to circa 1642/45. Both that and our guardroom scene clearly show the influence
of Anthonie Palamedesz.

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