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Common themes throughout the Dogs Playing Poker series are deception, mistrust, and confrontation. [4] Not every painting within the series depicts dogs playing poker. [6] Some paintings depict dogs performing other human activities, such as playing baseball and football. [6] In the painting Riding a Goat, a blindfolded dog sits atop a goat for ...
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (September 18, 1844 – January 13, 1934) was an American artist, mainly known for his series of portraits Dogs Playing Poker.Known as "Cash" or "Kash" in his family, he often signed his work in the 19th century with the latter spelling, sometimes [clarification needed] spelling his name, for comic effect, as Kash Koolidge.
A painting by one of the Le Nain brothers, hung in an Aix-en-Provence museum near the artist's home, depicts card players and is widely cited as an inspiration for the works by Cézanne. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The models for the paintings were local farmhands, some of whom worked on the Cézanne family estate, the Jas de Bouffan. [ 6 ]
The dog could also be simply a lap dog, a gift from husband to wife. Many wealthy women in the court had lap dogs as companions, reflecting wealth or social status. [17] During the Middle Ages, images of dogs were often carved on tombstones to represent the deceased's feudal loyalty or marital fidelity. [18]
Hounds and jackals or dogs and jackals is the modern name given to an ancient Egyptian tables game that is known from several examples of gaming boards and gaming pieces found in excavations. The modern name was invented by Howard Carter , who found one complete gaming set in a Theban tomb from the reign of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenemhat IV ...
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Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...
The painting shows a young boy standing at a small wooden table, who is building carefully a house of playing cards. The table has a drawer open and a green table cover. The boy was named Jean-Alexandre Le Noir, and he was the son of furniture dealer and cabinetmaker, Jean-Jacques Le Noir.