
AT-00018671
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Game of Backgammon
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Esaias Nilson (German, Augsburg 1721–1788 Augsburg)
- Date
- 1741–88
- Medium
- Red chalk
- Dimensions
- 7 7/16 x 11 5/8 in. (18.9 x 29.6 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1965
- Accession no.
- 65.551.2
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00018671
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