Michael SweertsDutch, 1618–1664De kaartspelers
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “De kaartspelers” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
This card game is interrupted by a brawl that has erupted. The players’ gazes and the outstretched arm of the man in front direct our attention to the right. The painting may symbolize idleness as a counterpart to Sweerts’ genre scenes of industrious artists from the same period. One person, however, is hard at ‘work’: a sly young pickpocket takes advantage of the chaos to rob the man in blue.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- SK-A-1958
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
![Soldats jouant aux cartes dans une caverne aménagée en corps de garde, Sweerts, Michael, XVIIe siècle (S.D.b.d. sur un cartellino : M.S. 16[49 ?] plutôt que 1645 (les deux derniers chiffres sont pratiquement illisibles aujourd’hui).) (1649)](https://collections.louvre.fr/media/cache/large/0000000021/0000064789/0000605740_OG.JPG)
