Le Tricheur à l’as de carreau
Details
- Palette
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- Medium
- huile sur toile
- Dimensions
- Hauteur 1,06 m; Hauteur avec accessoire 1,45 m; Largeur 1,46 m; Largeur avec accessoire 1,85 m; Epaisseur avec accessoire 11 cm
- Department
- Département des Peintures
- Holding institution
- Musée du Louvre
- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Human Figure Visual · 99%
Four prominently rendered human figures occupy the composition around a table.
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Scenes of Everyday Life Visual · 90%
The painting depicts a recognizable social scene involving a card game, money, and a drink at a table.
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Narrative Both · 93%
The title identifies a cheating card player, while the image presents an unfolding exchange among several figures handling cards and other objects.
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Implied Narrative Both · 88%
The title and the figures’ glances, gestures, concealed cards, and exchanges suggest a moment within a larger action whose outcome is not shown.
Visual Qualities
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Dark Colors Visual · 94%
The background and portions of the clothing are dominated by deep blacks, browns, and muted greens, contrasted with selective reds, whites, and golds.
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Dense Composition Visual · 88%
The four figures fill the horizontal format and overlap visually around the table, concentrating attention on the cards, hands, and money.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the medium as huile sur toile, or oil on canvas.
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Painting Both · 99%
The image clearly shows a painted canvas, and the catalog places the work in the Département des Peintures.
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Chiaroscuro Visual · 95%
Strong illumination falls on faces, hands, cards, jewelry, fabrics, and the glass against a predominantly black background, producing pronounced light-dark contrast.
Time Periods
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17th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to approximately 1636–1640, within the 17th century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 96%
The catalog identifies the artist display as Georges de La Tour; France.
Source & rights
Georges de La Tour. photo Shonagon 2024-04-05