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