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A guard-room scene inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting, the picture probably dates from the 1780s, as Demarne exhibited similar subjects at the Paris Salons of 1783 and 1787. When sold in 1832, the sale catalogue claimed that ‘the picture was always regarded by Demarne as his masterpiece in the genre. Shortly before his death he visited the owner and insisted on seeing it again. After he had examined it carefully, he said: 'Well! I am really content, and I hope [thereby] not to die completely.''

The Wallace Collection

London

Title

Women and Soldiers Revelling

Date

1780s

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 49.4 x W 56.8 cm

Accession number

P462

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1859; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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