The Card Players (Les Joueurs de cartes)
1890–1892
Oil on canvas
135.3 × 181.9 cm (53.3 × 71.6 in)
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In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
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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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