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

Pieter de Hooch was known for his 17th-century portrayals of domestic life. Some scenes suggested scandal or taught a moral Two’s company, three’s a crowd. Perhaps that was the logic someone used hundreds of years ago when altering Pieter de Hooch’s A Man Smoking and a Woman...