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accession number: 1943.377
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Game of Backgammon, 1640s. David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690). Oil on wood, transferred to canvas; framed: 82 x 102 x 9 cm (32 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 59 x 80.6 cm (23 1/4 x 31 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Wise 1943.377
title: Game of Backgammon
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creation date: 1640s
creation date earliest: 1640
creation date latest: 1649
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creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Wise
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culture: Flanders
technique: oil on wood, transferred to canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 82 x 102 x 9 cm (32 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 59 x 80.6 cm (23 1/4 x 31 3/4 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower left: "D. TENIERS"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Art: The International Language
opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00
Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).
title: Images of History
opening date: 1961-03-14T05:00:00
Images of History. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (organizer) (March 14-May 21, 1961).
title: Re-presenting the Baroque
opening date: 1997-10-01T00:00:00
Re-presenting the Baroque. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (organizer) (October 1, 1997-April 1, 1998).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Images of History, Denver Art Museum, CO (03/14/1961- 05/21/1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-03-14T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Royal Academy, London, England (April 1793).', 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674–1723), Regent of France
date: 1674-1723
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Louis I Duke of Orléans (1703–1752)
date: 1723-1752
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Louis Philippe I (1725–1785), Duke of Orléans
date: 1752-1785
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Louis-Philippe II (1747–1793), Duke of Orléans / Philippe Égalité
date: 1785-1792
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Brought to London by Thomas Moore Slade, (exhibited for sale in the Royal Academy, London, April 1793)
date: 1792-1793
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George Hibbert (1757–1837), London, England
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Thomas Penrice (d. 1816), Great Yarmouth, England, by inheritance to John Penrice
date: -1816
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John Penrice Sr. (1787-1844), sold, Christie's
date: 1816-1844
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(Sale: Christie's, London, England, 07/06/1844, to Farrer)
date: July 6, 1844
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Farrer
date: 1844-
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Private collection, sold, Christie's, London
date: -1925
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(Sale: Christie's, London, England, 07/17/1925, no. 119 through S. A. Hecht, London, England to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wise)
date: July 17, 1925
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Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Wise (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1943
date: 1925-1943
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1943-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Dubois de Saint-Gelais, Louis François. Description des tableaux du Palais royal: avec la vie des peintres à la tête de leurs ouvrages : dédiée a monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, premier prince du Sang. A Paris: Chez d'Houry, seul imprimeur & libraire de monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans, 1727.
page number: p. 114
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Couche, J., Fontenai, Croze-Magnan, Philippe Orléans, and House of Orleans. Galerie du Palais royal, gravée d'après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent: avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau. Paris: Chez J. Couché, 1786.
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Buchanan, William. Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England Since the French Revolution. London: Printed for R. Ackerman, 1824.
page number: no. 5, p. 188
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Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters; In Which Is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Description of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at Which Such Pictures Have Been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in Which a Large Portion Are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by Whom They Have Been Engraved; to Which Is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the Above Schools. London: Smith and Son, 1829.
page number: no. 373
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Christie & Manson. Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures, of the Very Highest Class: The Property of John Penrice, Esq. ... : Which Will Be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson ... on Saturday, July the 6th, 1844, at Two O'clock Precisely. [London]: Messrs. Christie and Manson, 1844.
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Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, Elizabeth Eastlake, and Algernon Graves. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss., &C. &C. London: J. Murray, 1854.
page number: p.503
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Stryienski, Casimir, and Philippe Orléans. La galerie du régent, Philippe, duc d'Orléans. Paris: Goupil & cie, 1913.
page number: p. 191, no. 515
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Christie, Manson & Woods. Important Early English Portraits. 1925.
page number: no. 119
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Burchfield, Louise H. “A Painting by David Teniers the Younger.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 1 (1944).
page number: pp. 5-7
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141101
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 450
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n82
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 121
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n145
Stechow, Wolfgang. “Teniers in the Cleveland Museum.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 1 (1968).
page number: pp. 28-34. fig. 2
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152191
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 121
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n145
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Mentioned: p. 41; Reproduced: p. 42
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Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: pp. 41, cat. no. 16, fig. 16.
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Delmarcel, Guy, Ingrid De Meûter, and Werner Adriaenssens. The Cinquantenaire Tapestries: The Collection of the Royal Museums of Art and History. Ghent : Snoeck ; Brussels : Royal Museums of Art and History, 2023.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 427-428, fig. 1
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