On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P01789
- Author
- Teniers, David (Flemish)
- Title
- The Skittles Game
- Chronology
- 1650 - 1660
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 42 cm x 71 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
As part of his many genre scenes,
Teniers frequently depicted players
of skittles or other peasant games,
such as bocce, which were very
popular entertainment in
seventeenth-century Flanders.
The compositional scheme used by
Teniers is similar to other works
by him. At one end, the volumes of
the houses serve as a backdrop for
the scene, at the other, separated
here by an earthen mound, the
perspective leads to a background
of landscape with a small
village.
The presence of an obelisk is the
most singular aspect of this
painting in which Teniers repeats
motives from other works, such as
the group of drinkers in front of
the door, or the figure leaning out
of it.
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