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Le Jeu Interrompu

Maker

(artist)
1610-1685

Jean Heudelot (engraver)

(publisher)
1723-1797

(publisher)
1729-1800

Title

Le Jeu Interrompu

Dimensions

Height: 29.8 cm
Width: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1948

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

The title inscribed below the image translates as ‘the interrupted game’. It hints at the moralistic overtones of this image, which shows a woman trying to interrupt the men’s excessive card-playing. The wine and the cards and pipes scattered in the foreground unite three recurrent subjects – alcohol, gaming and tobacco – used to represent sinful peasant leisure.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Special Display - Drawing Peasants, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/09/2010-10/02/2011

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : Ostade pinxit. Heudelot Sculp. / LE JEU INTÉRROMPU. / Gravé d'après le tableau original de même Grandeur. / a Amsterdam chez P. Fouquet Junior. a Paris chez Bassan Graveur. //

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