The Card Players

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker


1839-1906

Title

The Card Players

Date of Production

1892-1896

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

Height: 60 cm (canvas)
Width: 73 cm (canvas)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.57

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

  • players

Label Text

Cézanne became interested in depicting labourers playing cards in the autumn of 1890. During the 1890s he completed five paintings of this subject. Here, the composition is refined down to two men seated across a table in undefined surroundings. The players face each other but are immersed in the ritual of the game. Farm workers from the estate of Cézanne’s father posed for the two figures. They are the human equivalents of the painter’s views of Mount Saint Victoire: timeless, monumental and resolutely Provençal.

Provenance

With Paul Cassirer, Berlin; Dr Julius Elias, Berlin; J B Stang, Oslo; Alfred Gold, Berlin; purchased by Samuel Courtauld, March 1929; Courtauld Gift, 1932.

Exhibition History

Cezanne, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 25/01/2026-25/05/2026
Cezanne. Masterpieces from the Courtauld Gallery, KODE, Bergen, Norway, 16/07/2021-10/10/2021
Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
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The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, London, 17/09/2018-20/01/2019
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 02/06/2018-09/09/2018
Masterworks of the World are our Guests at our French Impressionist Collection (working title), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, 26/09/2014-18/01/2015
Masterpieces from Museums of the World at the Hermitage, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, 13/09/2013-17/11/2013
Cezanne's Card Players, Metropolitan Museum of Art & New York & USA, 07/02/2011-08/05/2011
Cezanne's Card Players, Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/10/2010-16/01/2011
The Courtauld Cézannes, Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-05/10/2008
Cézanne in Britain, National Gallery, London, 04/10/2006-07/01/2007
Part of general displays, Los Angeles & California & USA, 29/09/2004-05/01/2005
Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Nordic Culture, Stockholm & Sweden, 27/09/2002-19/01/2003
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
The Impressionists and after, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1947
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Literature

The Courtauld Cézannes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2008
Cézanne in Britain, National Gallery, London, 2006-07
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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