Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Games

Works of Art (36)

After the Hunt, ca. 1859, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (29.100.61)
The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, ca. 1765, Francesco Guardi (Italian), Oil on canvas (1997.117.4)
At the Lapin Agile, 1905, Pablo Picasso (Spanish), Oil on canvas (1992.391)
Bishop Chess Piece, 12th century, English, Walrus ivory (17.190.229)
Blindman's Buff, 1982–83, Komar and Melamid (Vitaly Komar, Russian; Aleksandr Melamid, Russian), Oil on canvas (1991.466)
The Card Players, 1890–92, Paul Cézanne (French), Oil on canvas (61.101.1)
Card table (one of a pair), 1817, Charles-Honoré Lannuier (French), American (New York City), Mahogany veneer on white pine, basswood, mahogany; gilded gesso and vert antique; gilded brass, die-stamped brass borders (1995.377.1)
Central Park, Winter, ca. 1905, William Glackens (American), Oil on canvas (21.164)
The Chess Players, 1876, Thomas Eakins (American), Oil on wood (81.14)
Chess set, 12th century, Nishapur, Iran, Glazed fritware (1971.193a–ff)
Chess set, late 18th century, Russian (Kholmogory), Walrus ivory (60.146a-pp)
Circus Sideshow, 1887–88, Georges Seurat (French), Oil on canvas (61.101.17)
The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room, 1866, Seymour Joseph Guy (American), Oil on canvas (1992.128)
Dancer in the Role of Harlequin, cast in 1920 from a wax sculpture modeled probably ca. 1884–85, Edgar Degas (French), Bronze, number 39/A (29.100.411)
Facsimile of Queen Nefertari, New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramesses II, ca. 1279–1213 B.C., Egyptian, Color facsimile by Nina deGaris Davies (30.4.145)
Game Piece, 12th century, German (Probably made in Cologne), Walrus ivory (16.106)
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare, 1857, Gustave Courbet (French), Oil on canvas (33.77)
Intaglio of a venator fighting a lion, 1st century A.D.; Late Augustan to Flavian, Roman, Carnelian (41.160.710)
Liubo board and pieces, Han dynasty, 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D., China, probably Luoyang, Henan Province, Earthenware with pigment, bone (1994.285a–m)
Mechanical game table, ca. 1780–83, David Roentgen (German), Germany; Neuwied, Partially stained oak, mahogany, maple, and fruitwood, felt, partially tooled and gilded leather, iron and steel fittings, brass (2007.42.1,2)
Merrymakers at Shrovetide, ca. 1615, Frans Hals (Dutch), Oil on canvas (14.40.605)
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 525–500 B.C.; black-figure Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (07.286.79)
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 525–500 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (16.71)
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 530–520 B.C.; Black-figure, Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (14.130.12)
Playing at Quintain, ca. 1500, French (Paris?), Colorless glass, silver stain, and vitreous paint (1980.223.6)
Psykter, ca. 520–510 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to Oltos, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (10.210.18)
Race Horses, 1885–88, Edgar Degas (French), Pastel on wood (1999.288.3)
Relief fragment with gladiators, Imperial, 1st–3rd century A.D., Roman; recorded ca. 1880 in the Vigna Aquari in Rome, Marble (57.11.7)
Relief fragment, Imperial, 1st–2nd century A.D., Roman; found at Sardis, Marble (26.199.63)
The Ridotto, possibly ca. 1765, Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (1997.117.5)
The Ring Toss, 1899, Clarence H. White (American), Gum bichromate print (33.43.303)
Roundel with mock Triumph of Love, ca. 1510–20, Perhaps Castel Durante or elsewhere in the Marches, Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (1975.1.1025)
The Seated Clowness (Mademoiselle Cha-u-Kao), 1896, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French), Lithograph printed in five colors on wove paper (49.55.50)
Set of Fifty-Two Playing Cards, ca. 1475, South Netherlandish (Burgundian Territories), Pasteboard with pen and ink, tempera, applied gold and silver (1983.515.1–.52)
Snap the Whip, 1872, Winslow Homer (American), Oil on canvas (50.41)
Two girls playing a game known as ephedrismos, late 4th–3rd century B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta (07.286.4)

Thematic Essays (17)