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| Keywords: Paul Cézanne - Les joueurs de cartes.jpg Artwork Creator Paul Cézanne The Card Players between 1890 1892 oil canvas cm 65 4 81 9 Metropolitan Museum of Art object history credit line Bequest of Stephen C Clark 1960 This scene of peasants playing cards was undertaken in the early 1890s as part of a painting campaign made up of five distillations of the subject Cézanne enlisted local farmhands to serve as models and he may have drawn inspiration for his Provençal genre scene from a painting of the same theme by the Le Nain brothers that was in the museum in Aix The Metropolitan ™s picture seems to have launched the series Next came a version twice its size which includes an additional figure “ a small standing child -- now in the Barnes Foundation in Merion Pennsylvania The last three compositions depict just two card players Cézanne continued to pare away extraneous details in these successive renditions The Courtauld Gallery London; Musée d'Orsay Paris; and private collection <ref>http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000301 MET</ref> reflist accession number 61 101 1 http //www metmuseum org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000301 The Metropolitan Museum of Art online PD-old-100 Paintings by Paul Cézanne in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1890s paintings Paintings of card players by Paul Cézanne Smoking men in art | ||||
