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CRISPIN VAN DE PASSE I Backgammon Players.
Engraving, circa 1620s. 212x147 mm; 8 3/8x5 7/8 inches. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A very good impression of this scarce engraving.
Based on a painting by Dirck van Baburen, from around 1622, now in the Residenzgalerie, Bamberg. The Latin inscription upper center, Irarum Causas Fugito, translates to "Flee from the Causes of Anger." The Dutch inscription below translates to "A dicer and gamer is a wretch, he drinks and squanders his money and beats his wife." Hollstein
