The Card Players
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The Card Players is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Caravaggist artist Dirck van Baburen, depicting gamblers engaged in a tense card game rendered with dramatic lighting and realism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Card Players canonical | 3 |
| The Card Players with a Fortune Teller | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baroque painting
ⓘ
genre painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | Utrecht Caravaggist genre scenes of gamblers ⓘ |
| artisticSchool |
Utrecht Caravaggism
ⓘ
surface form:
Utrecht Caravaggisti
|
| artistNationality | Dutch ⓘ |
| colorPalette |
earth tones
ⓘ
strong contrasts of light and dark ⓘ |
| composition | tight, close-up grouping of figures ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| creator | Dirck van Baburen ⓘ |
| depictionType | everyday life scene ⓘ |
| depicts |
card game
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card players ⓘ dramatic lighting ⓘ gamblers ⓘ money ⓘ playing cards ⓘ table ⓘ tavern interior ⓘ tense atmosphere ⓘ three-quarter-length figures ⓘ |
| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| inception | 17th century ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Caravaggio
ⓘ
Italian Baroque painting ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
card game
ⓘ
gambling ⓘ |
| movement |
Baroque
ⓘ
Utrecht Caravaggism ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch Caravaggism
|
| period | Dutch Golden Age ⓘ |
| portrays |
dramatic gestures
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expressive facial expressions ⓘ figures in contemporary dress ⓘ |
| setting | indoor tavern-like space ⓘ |
| style |
Caravaggesque
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realism ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
low-life genre scene
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vice of gambling ⓘ |
| theme |
human folly
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moralizing genre scene ⓘ risk and chance ⓘ |
| useOfLight | chiaroscuro ⓘ |
| visualFocus |
central group of players
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illumination on faces and hands ⓘ |
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Card Players with a Fortune Teller