Guardroom (David Teniers)

The Guard Room is a 1642 oil-on-panel painting by David Teniers the Younger, now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

Several unsigned but probably autograph variants also survive, such as at the Catherine Palace near St Petersburg and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, USA.

[2] An early copy by an unknown artist after the Hermitage work is now in the National Museum of Sweden.

[4] It was painted the year when Francisco de Melo, new ruler of the Spanish Netherlands, twice defeated a French army, thus briefly holding back their advance on Antwerp.

In 1806 it was looted by Napoleon's troops and assigned to Josephine Beauharnais, who kept it at the Château de Malmaison.