17th-Century Dutch Painting Restoration Reveals a Missing Soldier Playing a Drinking Game
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Conservation work at the Mauritshuis in The Hague has restored a soldier figure painted out of Pieter de Hooch's 'Figures in a Courtyard' (c. 1658–1660), recovering a 17th-century drinking game scene that had been obscured for nearly two centuries.
The restoration used the intact version at the National Gallery of Art as reference; the original appearance of the figure cannot be verified beyond comparison with that alternate composition.
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