Soldiers Playing Cards in a Ruin, Jean-Antoine Watteau
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Soldiers Playing Cards in a Ruin
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Henry Ferguson: Karten spielende Soldaten vor einem Gemäuer. Standort unbekannt

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Soldiers Playing Cards in a Ruin, ca. 1710 – 1712


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162 x 213 mm
Inventory Number
1065
Object Number
1065 Z
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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In front of a somewhat dilapidated fortress, a group of soldiers are passing the time playing cards and smoking. The scene looks as if it had been drawn from life, but Watteau copied it from a painting by a little-known Dutch painter, making various changes in the process. Whereas the architecture is not very convinc- ing in its spatiality, every one of the figures is full of life and individuality, despite the extremely cursory manner and sparse means with which the artist portrayed them.

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25.10.2024