Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards

Q: When was "Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards" created?

This artwork was created ca. 1535–62.

Q: Is "Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards" in the public domain?

Yes, Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Virgil Solis

ca. 1535–62

Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards by Virgil Solis

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 2 5/16 x 1 7/8 in. (5.9 x 4.7 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.759

Tags

MenWomenPlaying Cards

Art Historical Context

This lively engraving by Virgil Solis, a prolific 16th-century German artist from Nuremberg, captures a cheeky moment from daily life: two men and a woman huddled over a card game at a table, with one man playfully pressing his nose to her forehead. Created around 1535–62, it belongs to a series of ten small prints (just 2 5/16 x 1 7/8 inches) depicting musicians, dancing couples, drinkers, and gamers—intimate vignettes of leisure and revelry in Renaissance Europe. Solis, renowned for his intricate reproductive engravings inspired by contemporaries like Albrecht Dürer, mastered the burin to c...

Two men and a woman playing cards at a table, one man pressing his nose toward the woman's forehead, from a series of ten scenes of musicians and couples dancing, drinking, playing music, and playing cards

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