In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
For much of the 1890s, Paul Cézanne lived at his father's estate in Aix-en-Provence, where he made paintings of the local landscape and the people who worked on the property. Here, Cézanne shows a group of farmhands enjoying a game of cards—one of five canvases he devoted to the subject. In this one, the largest and most ambitious of the series, Cézanne gives these humble figures an imposing presence, depicting them on a scale usually reserved for grander subjects like history or mythology.
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Isaac Israels — De schaakspelers
Gustave Caillebotte — The Bezique Game
The Dice Shooters
Daniël Boone — Men Playing Cards in a Tavern
Robert Lotiron — Two Men Playing Backgammon
Biagio Pinto — Domino Players
Adolphe-Félix Cals (French, 1810–1880) — Card Game at "le Pè
Honoré Daumier — Two Drinkers (Les Deux buveurs)
Joos van Craesbeeck — Card Players
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Luncheon (Le Déjeuner)
Ernest Meissonier — The Card Players
Edgar Degas — Portrait of Henri Michel-Lévy
