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KAREL DU JARDIN (AMSTERDAM C.1626-VENICE 1678)
A Muleteer and two Men playing the Game of Morra
1650-52RCIN 406208
Two men, watched by a mule-driver, play the game ‘Morra’ where two players hold out from one to five fingers, trying to guess the sum of both hands before they are displayed. The game symbolises idleness, in comparison with the industry of the woman washing clothes and the men carrying grain in the background.
Acquired by George IV in 1818
No. 35
