Games – Page 4 – THAT IS PRICELESS

MASTERPIECE #1211

Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss

Charades Players Somehow Unable to Guess “Statue of Liberty,” 1878

Oil on canvas

Gustave Caillebotte, French

Men Engaged in High-Stakes Game of Slapjack, 1880

Oil on canvas

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, American

Kidnapping Victim and Captor Breaking Monotony With Game of Tag, 1983

Oil on canvas

Jean-Léon Gérôme, French

Emperor Napoleon III Receiving the Inventor of Leapfrog, 1861

Oil on canvas

Maximilien Luce, French

Proof That This “Knockout Game” Thing Is Getting Out of Control, 1903

Oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens, Southern Netherlandish

Paris Judging the Finals of a Wet Gossamer Scarf Contest, 1638

Oil on wood

Jean-Baptist Isabey, French

Hopefuls at Original Casting Call for Game of “Clue,” 1817

Watercolor

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Crushed By a Pedestal, 1794

Oil on panel

Jacques-Antoine Beaufort, French

Brutus Losing Again at Rock, Paper, Scissors, 1771

Oil on canvas

William Holman Hunt, British

The Artist’s Wife, With a Bunch of Crap She Won Playing Skeeball, 1868

Oil on canvas