Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris by Maximo Juderias Caballero 1910 Sculpture each side of the trunk

each side of the trunk having hand-forged 'rope twist' iron handles

The base having two X frame supports at each side with incised carving & circular carved roundels

plus a model number written by hand in red

both French and British

Antique Spanish Oil on Canvas Painting French Cavaliers Playing Chess Paris by Maximo Juderias Caballero 1910 Sculpture each side of the trunkA very good large antique oil on canvas painting by the celebrated Spanish artist Maximo Juderias Caballero (1867 1951), Paris 1910. The painting depicting an interior scene of 17th Century French Royalist Cavaliers playing chess. Two of the Cavaliers are seated at a carved table playing chess in their extravagant outfits, lace collar ruffs and rapier swords, while a third is seated and seems to be asleep or intoxicated, possibly explaining the silver