The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series.
The Card Players
The Card Players, 1890–1892, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Card Players, 1890–1892, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Card Players 1894–95, Oil on canvas, 47.5 × 57 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th century Cubism.
Cézanne in 1899
The Overture to Tannhäuser: The Artist's Mother and Sister, 1868, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Spring, 1860, Petit Palais
Paul Alexis reading to Émile Zola, 1869–70, São Paulo Museum of Art