Paul Cézanne · c. 1894–95
The Card Players
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Cézanne's quiet study of Provençal farmhands at a table — geometric form and weight that influenced every modernist who followed. One version sold for $250M+.
Up to 19.5 × 16 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Card Players
Two men in hats sit across a small table, cards in hand, looking down. A bottle stands between them like a referee. Nobody speaks, nobody moves, and the picture is somehow about everything: patience, weight, the way a body settles when it has worked all day. Cézanne painted the subject five times in the mid-1890s using farmhands from his family's estate near Aix; the versions are in the Musée d'Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum, the Courtauld in London, the Barnes Foundation, and the royal collection of Qatar, which paid a record price for its one. Picasso called Cézanne the father of all of them, and this is the painting he meant.
On a wall, The Card Players is warm, brown, and steady. The dominant colors are ochre, tobacco brown, a dull violet in the shadows, and the cream of the cards and the tablecloth. It suits a study, a den, a dining room, a game room, or a home bar, and it belongs with masculine, rustic, mid-century, and dark-wood interiors. It is a nearly square image, and it does not need to be large to work. The Medium at 19.5 × 16 in is the size that lets you read the hands and the cards; the Small at 14.6 × 12 in is right above a side table or a bar cart.
Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire is the landscape outside this room, and The Basket of Apples is the same solidity in fruit. Van Gogh's The Potato Eaters is the other great painting of country people at a table. More from Paul Cézanne.
Printed in our studio from a public-domain photograph of the canvas, with the muted, earthy tones held where Cézanne put them.
Paul Cézanne
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.
All Paul Cézanne prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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