# Hot Cockles \(La Main Chaude\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OUDRY, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Black and white chalk ## Commentary This drawing is part of the design for a tapestry cycle on the theme of "Amusements champêtres." Hot Cockles \("la main chaude"\) is a game in which sleight of hand and close attention are rewarded. One player, the "penitent," hides his face in the lap of a second \(called the "confessor," a referee who monitors the game\) and places his hand flat behind his back. In turn, other players slap the penitent on the hand, and he tries to identify who hit him. The player who lets himself be discovered becomes the penitent. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Europe]() - [Boar Hunt]() - [Dead Roe]() - [Dead Wolf]() - [Dog Pointing a Partridge]() - [Farmhouse]() - [Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen \(detail\)]() - [Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen]() - [Hound with Gun and Dead Game]() - [Landscape with a Brace of Partridges and a Hare]() - [Misse and Luttine]() - [Stag Hunt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()