print
- Museum number
- V,9.80
- Title
- Series: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde
- Description
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Two card-players seen half-length, sitting at a table; the player on the left hides a card in his right hand and looks on as an accomplice creeps up behind his opponent with his sword at the ready; proof before letters, with single border; after a painting formerly attributed to Caravaggio and now to Valentin de Boulogne. c.1750-1757
Etching
- Production date
- 1750-1757
- Dimensions
-
Height: 269 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 357 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series see 1855,0609.1251.
The painting is in Dresden (inv. 408); long believed to be a work by Caravaggio, it was attributed to Valentin in 1906.
This is a proof before letters, for comment see V,9.79.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- V,9.80