# Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LA TOUR, Georges de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 106 x 146 cm ## Commentary Georges de La Tour perfected the technique to carry banal or clownish scenes to an astonishingly delectable and sometime sublime state. The posturings of the dupes and scoundrels in the Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds confirm the artist's attachment to mocking scenes rendered in a dense, dazzling manner. The malicious cheating that occurs in this painting is admirably enhanced by costumes, movements, glances, poses, and even headwear. This is a 'chic' version of Caravaggesque gambling scenes - morally more sinister but more glamorous and droll to look at. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Blind Musician]() - [Christ in the Carpenter's Shop \(detail\)]() - [Christ in the Carpenter's Shop]() - [Fortune Teller]() - [Job Mocked by his Wife]() - [Magdalen of Night Light]() - [Magdalen with the Smoking Flame]() - [Peasant Couple Eating]() - [Penitent St Jerome]() - [Saint Jerome Reading]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()