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Card Players in a Rich Interior

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Card Players in a Rich Interior
ArtistPieter de Hooch
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions67 cm × 77 cm (26 in × 30 in)
LocationLouvre, Paris

Card Players in a Rich Interior is a c. 1663 – 1665 oil on canvas painting by Pieter de Hooch, produced at the start of his time in Amsterdam and signed "P. D. HOOCH". It is now in the Louvre, whose collections it entered in 1801.

It reworks a theme used in earlier works by the artist such as Soldiers Playing Cards (1657–1658; private collection) and Card Players in a Bright Interior (1658; Windsor Castle, Royal Collection) He also returned to the theme in the later Card Players at a Table (1670–1674; private collection).

Bibliography

  • "Joueurs de cartes dans un riche intérieur | Musée du Louvre | Paris". louvre.fr. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  • Peter C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Complete edition, Oxford, Phaidon, 1980, p. 93-94.
  • Peter C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, 1629–1684, London, Yale University Press, 1998–1999, p. 26-28.
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