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Pictures of everyday secular life, known as genre painting, were a Dutch specialty. The game played with gold coins for high stakes is an early form of poker. Now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Dumesnil followed Jean François de Troy’s pioneering tableaux de mode (paintings of fashionable society) by depicting a scene of contemporary life that includes the modish card game of quadrille and a Black, probably enslaved, servant who tends the fire. Dumesnil probably painted this canvas between...
In December 1916, Theo van Doesburg visited Helene Kröller-Müller and saw what Bart van der Leck had been doing in the second half of 1916. The paintings contained figurative images broken down into separate blocks and strips of colour on a white or black background. Vilmos Huszár was with Van Doesb...
In a tavern a card player has drawn a knife and is about to attack his victim, firmly grabbing his short hair. The victim, a fellow player from the other side of the table, cries out and seeks to ward off the blow with an open hand. The light falls harshly onto this brawl from the left, accentuating...
This painting of a group of people by a shed combines two events which seem to be taking place independently of each other. The three men playing cards around a makeshift table are so absorbed in their game that they are paying no attention to the other three figures on the left. Both scenes are adm...
The card players. A group of men are playing cards around a ton. While their attention is distracted by a fight, the man on the left is robbed by a boy. A dog is sleeping on the floor.
The card players. Sit at a table at the foot of a stone staircase two young men play a card game, a standing man watches, on the right lying a dog sleeping.
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