Card Players in a Drawing Room
ca. 1756–59
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
31 1/8 x 38 3/4 in. (79.1 x 98.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Accession Number
1976.100.8
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the elegant confines of a mid-18th-century French room, Pierre-Louis Dumesnil the Younger's *Card Players in a Drawing Room* (ca 1756–59) captures a moment of refined leisure. This oil-on-canvas painting, measuring 31⅛ × 38¾ inches, depicts men and women absorbed in card games, attended by servants and accompanied by a loyal dog. The scene brims with Rococo charm—Dumesnil's specialty as a French genre painter influenced by Antoine Watteau—casing intricate details of fashionable attire, ornate furnishings, and convivial domesticity. Painted during the height of the Rococo era under Louis XV...