REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn
(b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)

"La Main chaude" (detail)

c. 1628
Oil on panel
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

The title refers to a popular parlour game of the time, in which a chosen player turns his back on the others, one of whom then slaps him on the bottom, whereupon the first player has to identify the culprit.




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