Oil on canvas

Measurements:150 × 211 cm

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The man falls overcome by wine, game and lust: the first card of the deck held up by the dwarf in the center is a two of swords, an allusion to the female sex. A smaller version of the subject is preserved at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice (U. Ruggeri, Pietro and Marco Liberi. Pittori nella Venezia del Seicento, Rimini 1996, pp. 148-149 no. P76).
Bibliography: F. Magani, in Alfonsi Old Master Paintings. Fine Old Master Paintings Italian, French, Flemish Pictures, XV-XIX, Vicenza 2008, no. 3.