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People Playing Cards at an Inn
Also titled Kaartspelers in een herberg
Jan Ekels (II) (Amsterdam, 1759–1793)
1784
- Medium
- paper, pencil, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 350 mm x width 381 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
‘The winner shows that he has won the game and the loser seems dejected’ is how this scene was described in 1808. Here, all seems to be going well enough: no sky-high losses or eternal disgrace. This was not always the case abroad: English aristocrats were known to gamble entire estates away in a single evening.
