Petrus Bettelini
Italy, b.1763, d.1829
Bardum Collusorum Apposito Praevaricatore Vafer Aleator Emungit Ex Tabula Caravaggiensis, Quae Est In Aedibus Barberinis.
- Engraving
- Sir Joseph Kinsey bequest
- 290 x 321mm
- 73/177
Tags: backgammon, cross-hatching, daggers (weapons), dice, feather (material), fraud, furniture, hats, men (male humans), monochrome, people (agents), playing cards, tables (support furniture), text (layout feature)
This print depicts the oil painting by Caravaggio (1571–1610) now known as 'The cardsharps', in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
