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A group of men and women play a game called La Main Chaude (‘the hot hand’), which involved one person hiding their face on the lap of another, placing their hand behind their back and then guessing who has hit that hand. The artist, a follower of the Flemish painter Hieronymus Janssens, has placed the man bent over at the middle of the painting’s composition, so that his upturned hand is a central point around which the action of the scene develops. Four people crowd around a woman who is about to use her shoe to smack the prone man’s hand; a serving boy watches, taking his eyes off the glass precariously balanced on his platter. Standing prominently to the left is a lady holding up her yellow skirts, possibly in order to tip-toe away from the game, or perhaps to cause a diversion.
Title
Ladies and Gentlemen playing La Main Chaude
Date
probably 1655-65
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 26.8 x W 39 cm
Accession number
NG4976
Acquisition method
Presented by George Kingsley, 1939
Work type
Painting
