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Jacques Villon (French (culture or style))
Les Cartes (The Game of Solitaire)
1903
Museum Purchase
1963/2.57
A white marble statue of a young female figure, leaning forward holding a staff with eyes closed, her left hand held up to her right ear. A flowing, wind-swept garment drapes the figure. On the base to the left of the figure is a broken capital of a Corinthian column lying on its side.
Randolph Rogers (American (North American))
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
1861
Gift of Rogers Art Association
1862.1
Fragment of circular gaming piece carved in elephant ivory in high relief. Standing male figure wearing knee-length robe holds sword in right hand and stabs inverted beast in the chest. Forelegs of beast end in hooves; head of beast characterized by large eye and pronounced nostril. Left arm of figure and rear half of the beast missing. Border contains zigzag pattern with bead motif.
Samson Carver, Pricked-Ivories Workshop, Cologne, Germany
Fragment of a gaming piece with male slaying beast, possibly Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, zigzag pattern with incised circles in border
1145 – 1155
Anonymous Gift
1987/1.262
Plaster sculpture depicting two men sitting on stools playing checkers using a barrel as a table with a woman holding a baby standing behind them.
John Rogers
Checkers up at the Farm
1875
Museum Purchase
1950/1.100
This is a preparatory drawing of a group of putti that form part of the painted decoration of the dome of Florence cathedral. The most striking figures are the putti in the upper corners of the drawing who support an architectural cornice and a pair of putto that appear between them. One of these putti holds a shirt and his companion holds three dice. Myriad other putti are rendered more lightly to give the impression that they are positioned in the background.
Federico Zuccaro
Study for the Last Judgement in the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence
1571 – 1581
Museum Purchase
1973/2.81

Fernand Léger (French (culture or style))
King of Hearts
1949
Museum Purchase
1951/2.69

Sears Gallagher
Cribbage
1869 – 1940
Gift of Prof. and Mrs. Alfred H. White
1940.169
Some mold damage. Bottom of cream paper (approximately) 4 1/2cm folded under. Plate size: h26 3/5cm x tw 24 1/2ccm & bw 34 7/10cm. Beige paper size: lh 25 4/5cm & rh 25 1/2cm x tw 33 2/5cm & bw 33 7/10cm. Image size: h 21 2/5cm x tw 30 3/10cm & bw 30 1/2cm.
Max Liebermann (German (culture or style))
Untitled
Gift of Ruth W. and Clarence J. Boldt, Jr.
2008/2.441

Basil Hawkins
Card Game
1939
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration, New Deal art project
1943.50

Schelte Adams Bolswert
The Denial of Peter
1610 – 1638
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
1994/2.3

Victor Vasarely (French (culture or style))
Chess Set (Board)
1975 – 1985
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick
2004/2.86II
Fresh greens for the foliage and dark blue clouds sprinkled with lightning set the rain celebration scene. Court ladies have gathered on the lawn, and some swing under a blossoming tree, while the raja and a woman watch the exciement below from a balcony of his white palace.
Artist Unknown, India, Rajasthan, Kotah School
A celebration of the rains
1800 – 1832
Gift of Mr. George P. Bickford for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1964/2.114
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