# The Card Players, in Post-Impressionism

Paul Cézanne painted this in 1890–92, aged about 51. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Three farmhands sit at a table absorbed in a game of cards, while a fourth man, pipe in mouth, stands watching behind them.

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## The work

- Date: 1890–92
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (65.4 x 81.9 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 61.101.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Paul Cézanne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/paul-cezanne), French, 1839–1906

Cézanne divided his life between Paris and his native Aix-en-Provence. Encouraged by his schoolfriend Émile Zola and later by Pissarro, with whom he painted at Pontoise and Auvers in the 1870s, he showed at the first and third Impressionist exhibitions.

13 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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