The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (Q27180501)

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genre: genre art (Q1047337)
artist: Georges de La Tour (Q203371)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
main subject: card sharp (Q1394884)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: man (Q8441) card sharp (Q1394884) woman (Q467) table (Q14748) ace of spades (Q3418541) playing card (Q47883) card game (Q142714)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: eAHsvdrPzFNGFQ

catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/cheat-ace-clubs

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: 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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