4239 - Lady with two gentlemen playing backgammon

Lady with two gentlemen playing backgammon A dimly lit interior scene featuring a woman and a man dressed in Baroque style, with dice cups and a backgammon set (Backgammon) sitting at a table, paying attention to a hunter approaching with a shotgun and powder flask; glazed genre painting, oil on canvas, probably the second half of the 18th century, unsigned, lined; indistinctly stamped on the reverse of the canvas and the stretcher, with partly obliterated old fragmentary labels on the stretcher, including, among other things, the indistinctly legible text: ‘The painting could be a … work by Martin Ferdinand Quadal, were it not … French.”, conservation issues, set in a beautiful reused gilded stucco frame with widened inner dimensions, frame dimensions approx. 91 x 105 cm.