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Shown from about the lap up, a young person with brown hair and a peachy complexion faces our left in profile as he leans onto a table and sets folded playing cards up in a row in this vertical painting. Shown against a dark background, his long, brown hair curls by his ears and is pulled back with a navy-blue ribbon at the nape of his neck. He has a delicately sloping nose, his pink lips are closed, the cheek facing us is flushed, and he looks down at the tabletop under lowered lids. He wears a chestnut-brown, long-sleeved coat with a dark blue sash across his chest and tied around his…

The House of Cards

Jean Siméon Chardin (French, 1699 - 1779)

probably 1737 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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