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The Card Players
Also titled De kaartspelers
Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
c. 1646 - c. 1652
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 6.1 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
This card game is interrupted by a brawl that has erupted. The players’ gazes and the outstretched arm of the man in front direct our attention to the right. The painting may symbolize idleness as a counterpart to Sweerts’ genre scenes of industrious artists from the same period. One person, however, is hard at ‘work’: a sly young pickpocket takes advantage of the chaos to rob the man in blue.
