The card players
1910
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 140.5 × 177.6 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in grey paint on reverse c.r.: F3.1910. (in a rectangle)
inscribed (vertically) in chalk on reverse u.c.l.: jan 1904 - Accession Number
- 553-2
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1912
© the Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved / Bridgeman Images
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Human Figures Leisure, Games and Sport
- Subjects (specific)
- card games (activities) card players games games of chance men (male humans) reclining women (female humans)
Frame
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This large scale, flat frame in the Italian Cassetta form is gilded on a ground and bole layer, rather than direct to timber.
Though made early in the C20th. it references frames more commonly appearing in the second half of the C19th. - Framemaker
- Unknown - 20th century
- Date
- c.1910
- Materials
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timber and gold leaf
- Condition
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good original condition