The Card Players
1890–1892 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Paul Cézanne (1839–1906)
- Year
- 1890–1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65.4 × 81.9 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (one of five versions)
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
- Series
- The Card Players
Three farm labourers sit at a table in a dim room playing cards, pipes in their mouths, while a fourth man stands behind them watching and a boy looks on at the right. Cézanne painted five versions of the subject at the Jas de Bouffan, his family's estate outside Aix-en-Provence, in the early 1890s, using local farmhands as models and making many studies of each figure. This version, with four figures and a child, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; larger versions are in the Barnes Foundation, and the pared-down two-figure compositions are in the Musée d'Orsay and the Courtauld. The players are as still and solid as the bottles on the table, and the series is often read as his tribute to the dignity of provincial life.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A dim room of still, solid figures that suits a study, den or dining room with dark wood, at 24×18. Black frame on a warm ochre or deep green wall; the quiet mood is better kept away from brighter company.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1890–1892)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- dining room, study or library, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×18. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
