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Fourteen men, women, and children focus their attention on a man fanning out a deck of cards in a town street in the right half of this horizontal painting. More men and women stand in small groups or walk in the left half. The women wear bonnets and long dresses and cloaks. The men wear jackets, slacks, and hats. The people all have pale or peachy skin. The man holding out the cards wears a plumed, bicorn hat, a thick white scarf around his neck, and a long, dark coat. His long gray hair is looped into a knot on his upper back, and a thick white sideburn curls along the cheek we see. He has…

The Card Sharp on the Boulevard

Louis-Léopold Boilly (French, 1761 - 1845)

1806 · oil on wood

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Victoria and Roger Sant

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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