03 — ARTWORK
Card Players
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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Cézanne painted a series of The Card Players, consisting of five paintings, during his final period in the early 1890s. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for the series.
Each painting depicts Provençal peasants immersed in smoking their pipes and playing cards. The subjects, all male, are displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on the game at hand. Cézanne adapted the motif from 17th-century Dutch and French genre paintingThe depiction of scenes from everyday life. Elements of everyday life had long had a role in religious works; pictures in which such elements were the subject of a painting developed in the 16th century with such artists as Pieter Bruegel. Then Carracci and Caravaggio developed genre painting in Italy, but it was in Holland in the 17th century that it became an independent form with its own major achievements, Vermeer being one of its finest exponents. which often depicted card games with rowdy, drunken gamblers in taverns.
<A onclick="return OpenOther('/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&title=card+player&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Depictions+of+Card+Players')" HREF="/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&title=card+player&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Depictions+of+Card+Players">View examples of Card Players</a> from the 17th century.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Card Players by CÉZANNE, Paul},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-08},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/czanne-paul-r7acc44883e4fc9/card-players-rb6de20b522bdfa},
urldate = {2026-09-08},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-08. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
