The Game of Draughts

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Details

  • Title

    The Game of Draughts

  • Artist/maker

    Mattia Preti ("Mattia Preti") (1613 - 1699)
  • Associated place

    Europe (place of creation)
  • Date

    1630s
  • Material and technique

    oil on canvas

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    109 x 144 cm (height x width)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Friends of Benedict Nicolson with the assistance of the Art Fund, 1978.

  • Museum location

    Second floor | Gallery 46 | Baroque Art
  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1978.123

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Further reading

Whistler, Catherine, Baroque and Later Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum (London: Modern Art Press, 2016), no. 98, pp. 296-298, illus. pp.2-3

Treves Letizia, Beyond Caravaggio (National Gallery Company, London, 2016), 31, p.124, illus. p.125

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