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Jacob Duck
A Street Scene with Knife Grinder and Elegant Couplecirca 1655

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Oil painting of a crowded outdoor street scene with roughly two dozen figures in 17th-century dress gathered near a timber-framed building, with two elegantly dressed figures standing apart at right
Artist or Maker
Jacob Duck
Holland, circa 1600-1667
Title
A Street Scene with Knife Grinder and Elegant Couple
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
circa 1655
Medium
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions
Canvas: 18 × 27 1/2 in. (45.72 × 69.85 cm) Frame: 27 × 36 × 3 in. (68.58 × 91.44 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Arnold S. Kirkeby
Accession Number
58.50.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Salomon, Nanette. Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1998.
  • Rosen, Jochai. Jacob Duck, c.1600-1667: Catalogue Raisonné. [Amsterdam]: John Benjamins Publishing, 2017.



  • Spicer, Joaneath A., and Lynn Federle Orr. Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Baltimore: The Walters Art Galler, 1997.