2011/09/27

Playing for the Booty

Pirates of the Mediterranean playing at dice for prisoners (1869). A 19th century engraving of a painting by the British artist Frederick Richard Pickersgill.
Probably Corsairs from Algiers robbed some beautiful Italian or Spanish women and are gambling now for the booty. A highly romanticizing scenery, what a gorgeous life had these pirates.

2011/09/20

Gambling at an Inn

Gambling Scene at an Inn (late 1640s) by the Flemish painter David Teniers the Younger. A typical Baroque painting. Some travelers are passing their time at an Inn with gambling.

2011/09/11

Arab Children

Arab Children Playing Cards by the American painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman. Bridgman was specialized in oriental subjects and chose here unspectacular street scene. So it’s kind of a mixture of genre painting and orientalism.

2011/09/03