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Two Card Players
Also titled Twee kaartspelers
Tjeerd Eernstman (Leeuwarden, 1801–1886)
1826
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 80.3 cm x width 64.5 cm x depth 2.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of het Joost en Carin Scholten Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- 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
Two young men are playing cards together in a pub. The player on the left is revealing his hand: four aces. However, the player on the right is cheating: he secretly hides more cards under the table. To complete the scene, the painter added a little still-life to the composition: a glass of bitter next to a piece of chalk that the players use to keep score on the tabletop.
