Friday, May 30, 2025

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.

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