# The Card Players [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ROMBOUTS, Theodor]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 152 x 206 cm ## Commentary Theodor Rombouts was a pupil of Abraham Janssens, and another Caravaggist. He spent a number of years in Italy, and was much influenced by <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/caravagg/01/08cardsh.html'\)" HREF="/html/c/caravagg/01/08cardsh.html">Caravaggio's genre works.</A> As far as the subject matter is concerned, his Card Players is a genre painting, depicting as it does a jolly scene from everyday life probably with a moralising undertone. The painting is large in format, realistic in conception and traditional in style, and its subject is portrayed in sober and monumental fashion. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Five Senses \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of the Five Senses]() - [Backgammon Players]() - [Card and Backgammon Players. Fight over Cards]() - [Card Game]() - [Card Player Showing His Hand]() - [Card Players in an Interior]() - [Card Players]() - [Card Players]() - [The Card Players]() - [The Denial of St Peter \(detail\)]() - [The Denial of St Peter]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()