The Backgammon Players

Artist Theodoor Rombouts Flemish, 1597–1637

Date1634

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsoverall: 63 1/4 × 92 7/16 in. (160.7 × 234.8 cm)
frame: 76 1/2 × 105 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (194.3 × 268 × 8.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of E. Graham Flanagan, Charles R. Flanagan, and Mrs. Rosemond Flanagan Wagner in memory of their father E. G. Flanagan

Object numberGL.57.2.1

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ProvenanceCreated Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], 1634. [Galerie van Diemen, Berlin, before 1926]; [Eduard Plietzsch (1886–1961), Berlin, by 1926]. Private collection, Cologne (possibly Plietzsch) [1]. [Eduard Plietzsch, Cologne, before 1956]; E. Graham Flanagan, Greenville, NC; loaned to NCMA, 1957– 1963; given to NCMA, 1963 [2].

[1] It is possible that this private collector in Cologne was Plietzsch himself, who was an art historian, dealer, and collector. Shortly after World War I, he became director of the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin and then in 1933 established himself as an independent dealer, relocating to Cologne in 1952. It is also possible that August Neuerburg (d. 1944), a cigarette factory owner with locations in Cologne, Dresden, and Hamburg, and a known collector of Caravaggesque paintings, owned the Rombouts before it went back to Plietzsch.
[2] Loaned by Flanagan to NCMA 1957–1963 as partial and promised gift; fully gifted in 1963.

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