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The subject of card players became popular in Rome after it came from earlier sixteenth-century Flemish genre painting, along with depictions of fortune-tellers, money-changers and kindred scenes. They became popular after they was taken up by Caravaggio in the 1590s.

English Heritage, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House

London

Title

Card Players

Date

c.1620

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 87 x W 116 cm

Accession number

WM.1635-1948

Acquisition method

management transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum to English Heritage, 2004

Work type

Painting

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