PB 197

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 51; Larghezza: 66

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The subject, extremely common in 17th-century Flemish and Dutch genre painting, was replicated several times by the artist and his workshop, often with some variations in the arrangement of the figures, or in the adaptation of the scene for other purposes, as in the case of “The Guard with the Liberation of St. Peter,” in the Metropolitan Museum, in which the biblical episode has been inserted into the background of the genre scene, which is otherwise characterized by a composition entirely analogous to that of the painting in Palazzo Bianco (Liedtke 1984, p. 262). The painting depicts a guardhouse.