Claude Raguet Hirst
1855- 1942)
 

Claude Raguet Hirst was an American painter of still lifes. She was the only woman of her era to gain acclaim using the trompe-l'œil ("fool the eye") technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Raguet_Hirst

A Gentleman’s Table
After 1890
Oil on canvas
45.7 x 81.3 cm
NMWA, National Museum of Women in the Arts
https://nmwa.org/art/collection/gentlemans-table/

 

Commissioned for a Chicago men’s club, Claude Raguet Hirst’s A Gentleman’s Table subtly critiques masculine pastimes while still appealing to male patrons. The work’s hyperrealistic style exemplifies a traditional technique called trompe l’oeil, French for “deceives the eye.” At the time, trompe l’oeil works were typically painted by and for men. Hirst claimed the method as her own and refashioned it with messages appealing to female viewers. Her skill rendering tight contours, tonal values, reflections, and textures resulted in successful illusionistic images.

Georges de La Tour
(1593 - 1652)
 

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_de_La_Tour

The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
C. 1630-34
Oil on canvas
124.5 x 182.9 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198106

One of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century French art, Georges de La Tour’s Cheat with the Ace of Clubs takes as its subject the danger of indulgence in wine, women, and gambling. While the theme harks back to Caravaggio’s influential Cardsharps, also in the Kimbell, the roots of this engaging morality play can be traced to earlier representations of the biblical subject of the prodigal son.

Francesc Domingo Segura
(1893 - 1974)
 

Francesc Domingo i Segura was a Catalan painter and engraver, linked to the second generation of Noucentisme.

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesc_Domingo_i_Segura

The Gamblers
Oil on canvas
150 x 132 cm
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona
https://www.museunacional.cat/en/advanced-piece-search?&field_piece_inventory_number_value=004319-000

Salvator Rosa
(1615 - 1673)
 

Salvator Rosa is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th century. In his lifetime he was among the most famous painters, known for his flamboyant personality, and regarded as an accomplished poet, satirist, actor, musician, and printmaker, as well. He was active in Naples, Rome, and Florence, where on occasion he was compelled to move between cities, as his caustic satire earned him enemies in the artistic and intellectual circles of the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvator_Rosa

Soldiers Gambling
Probably 1656-8
oil on panel
61 x 77 cm.
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 

https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/explore-the-collection/201-250/soldiers-gambling/

Valentin de Boulogne
(1591 - 1632)

 

Valentin de Boulogne, sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style. His father, also named Valentin, and his uncle Jean were both painters. 

Valentin had success with a type of composition invented by Caravaggio in which fortune tellers, drinkers, or gamblers are grouped around a table. Valentin himself was fond of carousing and fine wine. Approximately 75 of his works survive. Valentin's genius shows in the subtleness of psychological expression and interplay among his characters, as well as in the refinement and finesse of his painting technique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_de_Boulogne

 

Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats)
c. 1618/1620
Oil on canvas
121 x 152 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/107315-soldiers-playing-cards-and-dice-cheats

 <b>Arsen Levonee</b>
(b. 1978)

Arsen Levonee is a Russian artist, born in Armenia, living and working in Moscow.

Marcel Duchamp and Arsen Levonee Playing Chess
2015
120 x 95 cm
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts in Peredelkino, Moscow

<i>Marcel Duchamp often played chess with the composer John Cage. Even though Duchamp and I live in different historical eras, I nevertheless allowed myself to play a game of chess with him. This entire game is a metaphor embodied in my series of paintings. </i>
Arsen Levonee

Eduard Charlemont
(1848- 1906)
 

Eduard Charlemont was an Austrian painter.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Charlemont traveled to many countries in central Europe and finally settled in Paris, where he lived for the next thirty years. In Paris, several times he won the first prize of the Paris Salon, an annual exhibition held by the French Academy of Fine Arts (French: Académie des Beaux-Arts). The most famous work of Charlemont is The Guardian of the Seraglio, widely known as The Moorish Chief, depicting a Moorish swordsman guarding a seraglio (part of a typical wealthy Arabic villa, where women stayed when strangers entered the house).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Charlemont

Card players

late 1800
Oil on wood
41.5 x 54 cm
Regional Gallery in Liberec, Czechia

Anna Palm de Rosa
1859 - 1924)
 

Anna Sofia Palm de Rosa was a Swedish artist and landscape painter. In the 1890s she became one of Sweden's most popular painters with her watercolours of steamers and sailing ships and scenes of Stockholm. She also painted a memorable picture of a game of cards in Skagen's Brøndums Hotel while she spent a summer with the Skagen Painters. At the age of 36, Anna Palm left Sweden for good, spending the rest of her life in the south of Italy, where she married an infantry officer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Palm_de_Rosa

A game of L'hombre in Brøndum's Hotel
1885
Gouache on paper on canvas
52.4 x 35.6 cm
Skagens Museum, Skagen Denmark

 <b>Angelica Kauffman</b>
(1741- 1807)
 

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Kauffman

Composition
1778-80
Oil on canvas
126 x 148 cm
Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/composition

This painting representing Composition is part of a set of the four 'Elements of Art' commissioned from Kauffman by the Royal Academy to decorate the ceiling of the Royal Academy's new Council Chamber in Somerset House which opened in 1780. The Elements comprise the four fundamental stages of creating an artwork: Invention, Design, Composition and Colouring. 

Giulio Campi
(1502- 1572)
 

Giulio Campi was an Italian painter and architect. His brothers Vincenzo Campi and Antonio Campi were also renowned painters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Campi

Game of Chess
circa 1530-32
Oil on canvas
90 x 127 cm
Palazzo Madama, Turin
https://www.palazzomadamatorino.it/en/archivio-catalogo/il-gioco-degli-scacchi/

Édouard Manet
(1832- 1883)
 

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) or Olympia, "premiering" in 1863 and '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Manet

La Partie de Croquet (The Croquet Game)
1873
Oil on canvas
72 x 106 cm
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/de/werk/die-krocketpartie

 

The Croquet Game is an 1873 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. It shows a group of people playing croquet, a very fashionable game at that time. The group comprises the painter Alfred Stevens, artists' models Victorine Meurent and Alice Lecouvé and, in the background, Manet's friend Paul Roudier.
In style this painting represented Manet's closest approach to impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Croquet_Game

 

 John Everett Millais
(1829 - 1896)

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millais

Hearts are Trumps
1872
Oil on canvas
165 x 219 cm.
Tate
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-hearts-are-trumps-n05770

Ivor Weiss
(1919-1986)
 

Artist and designer, born in London, where he studied art at the Northampton Road Polytechnic. During World War II he studied at the Bardi Studio in Cairo, then at the Malta School of Art, where he gained first prize for figure drawing. After the war Weiss continued his studies at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art before attending St Martin’s School of Art, where he gained his diploma in painting. From 1950–5 he and his wife lived in Alabama in America where they designed and executed murals and mosaics for commercial clients. On returning, Weiss designed and made enamelled jewellery for Harrods and Heal’s, a silk scarf for Hardy Amies, stained glass windows for the Stock Exchange in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a mosaic wall for Michelsons Ltd.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman.

Four Card Players
1980
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 121.92 cm
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum , London, UK
https://benuri.org/artworks/categories/2/2207-ivor-weiss-four-card-players/

John George Brown
(1831 - 1913)
 

John George Brown was a British citizen and an American painter who specialized in genre scenes.
Brown's art is best characterized as British genre paintings adapted to American subjects. Essentially literary, Brown's paintings are executed with precise detail, but poor in color, and more popular with the general public than with connoisseurs. His paintings were quite popular with wealthy collectors. Many of Brown's paintings were reproduced as lithographs and widely distributed with packaged teas. He also painted some landscapes, just for pleasure.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Brown

Curling;—a Scottish Game, at Central Park
1862
Oil on canvas
50.8 × 111.8 cm.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/50564/curlinga-scottish-game-at-central-park

 Rafael Romero Barros
1832–1895)

 

Rafael Romero Barros  was a Spanish painter who often worked in the Costumbrismo style. His youngest son was the painter Julio Romero de Torres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Romero_Barros

Chicos jugando a las cartas (kids playing cards)
1876–1877
Oil on panel
24.5 x 31 cm
Museo de Bellas Artes de Córdoba, Spain
https://www.museosdeandalucia.es/web/museodebellasartesdecordoba/obras-singulares/-/asset_publisher/GRnu6ntjtLfp/content/chicos-jugando-a-las-cartas?inheritRedirect=true

Eugène Bellangé
(1837 - 1895)
 

Eugène Bellangé, was a French painter.
Eugène Bellangé was the son of the painter Hippolyte Bellangé. He studied under his father and François Édouard Picot at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Like his father, he devoted himself to paintings of battles and military scenes, small works, as well as genre scenes.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Bellangé

Infantry soldiers at the Châlons camp in 1864. The bingo game.
1864
Oil on canvas
98.5 x 138 cm
Paris, musée de l'Armée
https://images.grandpalaisrmn.fr/ark:/36255/06-508869

Le Nain
(17 Century)
 

The three Le Nain brothers were painters in 17th-century France: Antoine Le Nain (c.1600–1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1603–1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). They produced genre works, portraits and portrait miniatures.  Because of the similarity of their styles of painting and the difficulty of distinguishing works by each brother (they signed their paintings only with their surname, and many may have been collaborations), they are commonly referred to as a single entity, Le Nain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Nain

 

Les Joueurs de tric-trac (The backgammon players)
17th century
Oil on canvas
96 x 123 cm.
The Louvre
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010066277

 Caravaggio
(1571 - 1610)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio

The Cardsharps
c. 1595
Oil on canvas
94.2 x 130.9 cm
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Candido Portinari
(1903 - 1962)
 

Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candido_Portinari

Little Clowns on Seesaw
1957
Oil on canvas
65 cm × 54 cm
Projeto Portinari, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
https://www.portinari.org.br/en/archive/artwork/17249/little-clowns-on-seesaw

 <b>Edvard Munch</b>
(1863 - 1944)
 

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. 

His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch

At the Roulette Table in Monte Carlo
1892
116 x 74 cm
Oil on canvas
The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
https://www.munchmuseet.no/en/object/MM.M.00050

Thomas Eakins
(1841–1916 )
 

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins

The Chess Players
1876
Oil on panel
29.8 x 42.6 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10813

 

In this painting, the artist’s father watches a chess game between two friends in a Renaissance Revival parlor of a Philadelphia home. Eakins honored his father with a Latin inscription on the drawer of the chess table, which translates as “Benjamin Eakins’s son painted this in ’76.” A reproduction of a painting by Eakins’s principal French teacher, Jean-Léon Gérôme, hangs over the mantel. Eakins adhered to Gérôme’s academic lessons in his careful spatial construction and meticulous detail. In 1881 The Chess Players became the first work to be accepted by the Metropolitan Museum as a gift from a living artist.

Abel Manta
(1888 - 1982)

Abel Manta was an architect, painter, designer, and Portuguese cartoonist.
Between 1908 and 1915 Manta attended the Lisbon School of Fine Arts, completing the course in painting, having won the third Prize of the National Society of Fine Arts.
In 1919 he went to Paris participating in the "Salon de la Société Nationale" among other galleries, having also attended the course of engraving with William Schlumberger. While there he met his wife, the Portuguese artist Clementina Carneiro de Moura.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Manta

Game of checkers
1927
Oil on canvas
106 x 116 cm
National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/en/pecas/ver/124/artist

 Jean-Léon Gérôme
 (1824–1904)
 

Jean-Léon Gérôme  was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. He is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Léon_Gérôme

Turkish "Bashi-bazouk" Mercenary Soldiers Playing Chess
circa 1870-1873
Oil on canvas
93.98 x 79.38 cm
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans US
https://noma.org/collection/turkish-bashi-bazouk-mercenary-soldiers-playing-chess/

 Paul Cézanne
(1839 - 1906)
 

Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cézanne

Les joueurs de carte (The Card Players)
1892–1895
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm.
Courtauld Institute of Art, London
https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/exhibitions/cezannes-card-players/

The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size, the number of players, and the setting in which the game takes place. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Card_Players#

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
(1699 - 1779)
 

Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Siméon_Chardin

The Game of Knucklebones
c. 1734
Oil on canvas
81.9 x 65.6 cm
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore US

https://collection.artbma.org/objects/37120/the-game-of-knucklebones

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
(1530 - 1569)

 

Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder  was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

Children's Games
1560
Oil on panel
118 × 161 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum,Vienna

The entire composition is full of children playing a wide variety of games. Over 90 different games that were played by children at the time have been identified. On Wikipedia you can find a list of 80 of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Games_(Bruegel)

 

 detail

Vincent van Gogh
(1662– 1747)

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

The Night Café
1888
Oil on panel
72.4 x 91.2 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/12507

 Torii Kiyomitsu
(1735 - 1785)
 

Torii Kiyomitsu was a painter and printmaker of the Torii school of Japanese ukiyo-e art; the son of Torii Kiyonobu II or Torii Kiyomasu II, he was the third head of the school, and was originally called Kamejirō before taking the gō Kiyomitsu. Dividing his work between actor prints and bijinga (pictures of beautiful women), he primarily used the benizuri-e technique prolific at the time, which involved using one or two colors of ink on the woodblocks rather than hand-coloring; full-color prints would be introduced later in Kiyomitsu's career, in 1765.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii_Kiyomitsu

Three Tabletop Games
ca. 1751-1764
Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints)
43.5 x 31 cm
Tobacco and Salt Museum, Sumida City, Japan

Raffaello Sorbi
(1844 - 1931)

 

Raffaello Sorbi was an Italian painter, specializing in narrative painting. As a young man, he studied design in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence; then painting under professor Antonio Ciseri. By 18 years, he had completed his first major work: Corso Donati mortally wounded is transported by Monks of San Salvi to their Abbey (see gallery).[2] The painting won an award at the Florentine Triennale contest of 1861. He completed commissions for patrons in America and England. In 1863, he won a contest in Rome with the essay piece Savonarola explains the Bible to some friends in the Convent of San Marco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaello_Sorbi

 

A game of bowls with XVIII century clothes
1889
Oil on canvas
129.5 × 200.7 cm
Salamon Gallery - Biennale Internazionale dell'Antiquariato di Firenze, Italy

 Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)

 

Winslow Homer. was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer

Snap the Whip
1872
Oil on canvas
56 x 91.4 cm
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
http://www.butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/winslow_homer_1836.htm

Snap the Whip depicts a group of children playing crack the whip in a field in front of a small red schoolhouse. With more of America's population moving to cities, the portrait depicts the simplicity of rural agrarian life that Americans were beginning to leave behind in the post-Civil War era, evoking a mood of nostalgia. Homer painted a second version, of similar date, which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In this, he retains the schoolhouse but the background hillscape is removed, making the location less regionally specific.

Snap the Whip
1872
Oil on canvas

61 x 81 cm

The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11140