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A Game of Tric Trac

Judith Leyster

A Game of Tric Trac

Judith Leyster
  • Date: c.1631
  • Genre: genre painting
  • Location: Worcester Art Museum (WAM), Worcester, MA, UK
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A popular pastime, tric-trac (as backgammon was known at the time) was also a form of gambling, which–like drinking and smoking–was associated with the vice of idleness. Here the woman holds a glass of wine in one hand and offers a pipe to her opponent, who looks out at the viewer with a knowing smile that suggests the two are also playing another, bawdier game.

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