Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white | document OCR: The Card Players There are no fewer than five painted versions of this card game, with either two or three players, and with or without spectators, as well as numerous preparatory sketches, watercolours and related pictures. Cezanne worked at length on this subject, which is a classic theme of French painting. He would have been aware of The Card Players of the School of Le Nain, which is in the musee Granet in Aix-en-Provence. The theme was popular in the seventeenth century, but while earlier painters had sought to represent moral or anecdotal scenes - the card-sharp, Luck or a lively tavern interior, for example - Cézanne produced a de-dramatized version of the game, which Andre Breton described as 'half tragedy, half farce'. The two players are facing each other across a simple wooden ...
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