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The card players
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDe kaartspelers. c. 1646 - c. 1652. Michael Sweerts. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
