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The Game of Hot Cockles

Date

1728

Creator

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

This is a design for a tapestry produced by the Gobelins factory. It depicts three richly dressed couples playing the game of hot cockles, in which one player kneels with his head in the lap of another, covering his eyes, while he holds his hand behind his back. Another player slaps or touches the outstretched hand, and the object is for the kneeling player to guess who has struck him. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)

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This is a design for a tapestry produced by the Gobelins factory. It depicts three richly dressed couples playing the game of hot cockles, in which one player kneels with his head in the lap of another, covering his eyes, while he holds his hand behind his back. Another player slaps or touches the outstretched hand, and the object is for the kneeling player to guess who has struck him. from Snay, The Epic and the Intimate: French Drawings from the John D. Reilly Collection (Notre Dame, 2011)
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Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686 - 1755)
1728
Drawings
Black chalk with white heightening on blue paper
1996.070.013
games
Not on view, please request access
11 1/4 x 17 in. (28.58 x 43.18 cm)
Gift of John D. Reilly, ND '63, '64

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