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The Card Players

Maker

(Artists)
1839-1906

Title

The Card Players

Date of Production

1892-1896

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

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

Accession Number

P.1932.SC.57

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

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. 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

The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019 ...More

Courtauld Impressionists: From Manet to Cezanne, National Gallery, London, 17/09/2018-20/01/2019

Courtauld Connects Regional Programme, The 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, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 21/10/2010-16/01/2011

The Courtauld Cézannes, The 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 & England, 1947 ...Less

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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