The Game of Chess (Sofonisba Anguissola)

The Game of Chess (also known as Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess) is an oil-on-canvas painting created around 1555 by the Italian Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola. Anguissola was 23 years old when she created the painting, which is now housed at the National Museum in Poznań, Poland.

The painting features three of Sofonisba Anguissola's sisters: Lucia (left), Europa (middle), and Minerva (right), and an unnamed housemaid (top right). It is signed and dated on the edge of the chessboard, where Anguissola left the following inscription in Latin: SOPHONISBA ANGUSSOLA VIRGO AMILCARIS FILIA EX VERA EFFIGIE TRES SUAS SORORES ET ANCILLAM PINXIT MDLV – "Sofonisba Angussola, virgin daughter of Amilcare, painted from life her three sisters and a maid, 1555.