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Losing Card Player
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In 1633, a year after the death of the Haarlem minister and writer Samuel Ampzing, the Spigel, a series of 17 prints with his didactic verses, was published. Pendants like this tric-trac player and card-player and trios of half-figures brought attention to the popular moralizing message of the consequences of vanity and drinking in an unconventional way.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineLosing Card Player. 1633. Jan van de Velde (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
