The Game of Skittles (Allegory of Fortune?)

ca. 1635 or 1640

Adam Willaerts, Artist Jacob A. Duck, Artist

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Title The Game of Skittles (Allegory of Fortune?)

Artwork Date ca. 1635 or 1640

Makers Adam Willaerts (Artist) Dutch, 1577-1664 Jacob A. Duck (Artist) Dutch, 1600-1667

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 22 × 32 5/8 inches (55.9 × 82.9 cm) Framed: 32 1/8 × 41 5/8 × 2 3/4 inches (81.6 × 105.7 × 7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 48.13

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Provenance

April 23, 1817, auction (George Stanley, possibly London, England), lot 76.
by 1912, collection of Bonjean (Paris, France).
collection of Marczell von Nemes (Budapest, Hungary);
June 17-18, 1913, auction of Marczell von Nemes by (Galerie Manzi, Paris, France), lot 50;
June 17-18, 1913, purchased by Baron Mór Lipót Herzog (Budapest, Hungary).
(Schneider-Gabriel Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with gift of funds from Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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Budapest, Museum des Beaux-Arts, 1911.

Katalog der aus der Sammlung des kgl. Rates Marczell von Nemes-Budapest ausgestellten Gemälde. Exh./Sales (?) cat., Städtisches Kunsthalle. Düsseldorf, 1912, cat. 47 (unpaginated).

Auction Marczell von Nemes. Sales cat., Galerie Manzi. Paris, June 17-18, 1913, lot 50.

Der Cicerone, vol. 5 (1913): p. 517 (50).

Woolfenden, W. E. "The Game of Skittles by Jacob Duck." Bulletin of the DIA, 28 (1948): pp. 4-6, (repr.) p. 5.

D. A. C. News, vol. 37 (January 1952): pp. 54, 58, (cover ill.).

Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. DIA. Detroit, 1954, pp. 16-17, (repr.).

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 70-73, no. 26 (ill.).

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Jacob A. Duck; Adam Willaerts, The Game of Skittles (Allegory of Fortune?), ca. 1635 or 1640, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 48.13.