# Guessing Game

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RÉGNIER, Nicolas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 172 x 232 cm

## Commentary

This moral tale places a budding young woman amid a - literally - shady group located in a gambling hell. The virginity of the fresh-faced protagonist is signaled by the immaculate linen apron draped across her lap; the threats to it are all around, beginning with the bawd behind the fortune teller.

## Related artworks

- [A Musician Playing a Lute to a Singing Girl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/a-musician-playing-a-lute-to-a-singing-girl-r4dd013163c79c6>)
- [Cardsharps and Fortune Teller \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/cardsharps-and-fortune-teller-detail-r2e5bb2063bbc4f>)
- [Cardsharps and Fortune Teller](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/cardsharps-and-fortune-teller-r4320f9b60a88b0>)
- [Self-Portrait with a Portrait on an Easel \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/self-portrait-with-a-portrait-on-an-easel-detail-r5455a0467dab95>)
- [Self-Portrait with a Portrait on an Easel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/self-portrait-with-a-portrait-on-an-easel-r5423fe8b874d9d>)
- [St John the Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/st-john-the-baptist-r78fe63ef94beb1>)
- [St Sebastian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/st-sebastian-r100c6fa1f8c1fc>)
- [St Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Servant](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/st-sebastian-tended-by-irene-and-her-servant-r624c12763ed7eb>)
- [The Death of Sophonisba](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/the-death-of-sophonisba-r52f4c771635bcd>)
- [The Fortune Teller](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/the-fortune-teller-rfd810bb869f94e>)
- [Vanitas \(Allegory of Transience\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rgnier-nicolas-r760018a82f78f0/vanitas-allegory-of-transience-re673b9f3cf1e34>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)