# Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice \(The Cheats\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 121 x 152 cm ## Commentary This painting, like Valentine's Card-sharpers in Dresden, belongs to the artist's early Roman career, and it shows the influence of Caravaggio's principal follower and popularizer, Bartolomeo Manfredi. The figure of the accomplice, whose hand scarcely emerges from his cloak, draws on the allegorical figure of Winter in Manfredi's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/manfredi/4seasons.html'\)" href="/html/m/manfredi/4seasons.html">Allegory of the Four Seasons</a> of c. 1610. Furthermore, the figure of the dupe, especially in physiognomy, surely has benefited from the example of the same figure in Manfredi's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/manfredi/fortunet.html'\)" href="/html/m/manfredi/fortunet.html">Fortune Teller.</a> ## Related artworks - [Card-sharpers]() - [Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple]() - [Company with Fortune-Teller \(detail\)]() - [Company with Fortune-Teller \(detail\)]() - [Company with Fortune-Teller]() - [Crowning with Thorns]() - [David with the Head of Goliath and Two Soldiers]() - [David with the Head of Goliath \(detail\)]() - [David with the Head of Goliath]() - [Denial of Saint Peter]() - [Expulsion of the Money-Changers from the Temple]() - [Fortune Teller \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()