A man sits at a table with playing cards and drink in hand, his wife threatens him as his playing partner makes his departure. Engraving by F. Basan after Dumesnil, junior.

  • Dumesnil, Pierre-Louis, the younger, 1698-1781.
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His playing partner has just played the ace of spades

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Paris : chez Basan

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 28 x 33.3 cm

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Le supot de Bachus. Dumesnil junior pinx. F. Basan excud

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome II, Paris 1933, p. 104, no. 52 ("'Le supot de Bachus.' Il est attablé dans un cabaret, un verre dans une main, des cartes dans l'autre, et subit une algarade de sa femme, tandis que son partenaire s'esquive prudemment. Sous le tr. c. : "Dumesnil junior pinx. F. Basan excud." Au bas : "A Paris, chez Basan " H. 0m250 x L. 0m314. L'état décrit … Oeuvre de Basan, I, no. 44. L'original est de Louis-Pierre Dumesnil le jeune (1698-1781).")

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Wellcome Collection 26859i

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