# Two Card Players

- By: Tjeerd Eernstman (Leeuwarden, 1801–1886)
- Date: 1826
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 80.3 cm x width 64.5 cm x depth 2.3 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of het Joost en Carin Scholten Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5090--83c1c1d947668a6a67cf40b545df89a6)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/a2fc07f8624be25084004579eeed4b31.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.