The Card Players
Date1846
MediumPaint on canvas
Dimensions25 inches × 18 1/2 inches (63.5 × 46.99 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
Object number55.175
ClassificationsPaintings
Curator NotesThree men gathered around a card table. Man at right has hand holding cards up against his cheek and stirs a drink with his right hand. Figure standing behind the table wears a tasseled cap and holds large pipe in his hand. Seated at the left, another man points at the cards and looks up at the man behind the table. A black man, left center, watches the group. Newspaper tacked to wall in background, umbrella leaning against the table in the foreground. Reddish brown, black and tan.
On View
Not on viewLocations
- Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, American Art, Paintings 1
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of:
William J. Hoppin, 1860
The Hoppin Family
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