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)

 

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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