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The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place.
25 sty 2023 · Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players (c. 1890 – 1892) is just one of his most iconic paintings depicting card players from his series of five. This article will take a closer look at this painting and what makes it so different from the regular genre paintings of card players.
The version of the card players at Metropolitan Museum of Art (image at the top of the page) is now generally thought to be the earliest of the five paintings in the series. It depicts somewhat eccentrically-proportioned figures surrounding a table: three play cards and a fourth merely observes the game, his pipe indicative of his contemplative ...
In The Card Players (c. 1890 – 1892) Paul Cézanne depicts four men, three sitting at a small square table playing a game of cards and one standing to the left in the background watching the card game unfold before him.
Not long before beginning his card players series, Cézanne made a painted copy of Dutch seventeenth-century master of peasant genre scenes Adriaen van Ostade’s (1610–1685) etching The Family (The Met, 23.65.30). (The copy of 1885–90 is in a private collection.)
Analysis of The Card Players paintings by Cezanne. Each painting in Cezanne's series shows two or more Provencal peasants quietly smoking their pipes and playing cards.
29 wrz 2021 · In his final period in the early 1890s, Paul Cézanne created a series of five oil paintings that depicted the subject of card players. The Card Players (1890-1892) at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, is the largest and the most elaborate painting of the series.
