Meanwhile…

Meanwhile, in a Dutch museum…

This Dutch Painting Showed a 17th-Century Drinking Game Until Someone Smudged Out a Player, Spoiling the Fun. A Museum Just Restored the Imbibing Soldier smithsonianmag.com

A Pieter de Hooch interior showed 17th-century soldiers at a drinking game until a later hand painted one player out, wrecking the sense of the scene. Conservators have now removed the overpaint and returned the missing drinker to the table.

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