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The paintings Etude of the life of the Russian Tsars (Chess playing) and Soldier of the Zemstvo Militia were highly praised by the art critic of the newspaper Vesti, writing under the initials "I", in the article Academic Exhibition and Our Critics: "So much life, truth, intelligence, that looking at them, as when listening to folk tales, one ...
The younger man's relaxed appearance suggests that he may be winning, while the older man's tense grip of the table edge suggests that his game is going poorly. [4] Daumier matched the colors of the chess players' clothing with the color of the chess pieces; the white suit of one character opposed to the black sweater of his opponent.
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An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess. [41] [42] [43] I Giocatori di Scacchi (The Chess Players) (c. 1590) by Ludovico Carracci; Arabes jouant aux échecs (Arabs Playing Chess) (1847) by Eugène Delacroix
The Department of Prints and Drawings was founded in 1924, when the museum received the holdings of the Printing Cabinet of the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum. In 1861, Alexander II made a valuable gift to the Printing Cabinet: the Moscow Public and Rumyantsev Museum received more than 20,000 prints from the Hermitage.
Portrait of the Artist's Sisters Playing Chess: 1555 National Museum Poznań: FR 434 Self-portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel: 1556 Łańcut Castle, Poland Portrait of a Monk: 1556 private collection Herbert Cook: Miniature Self-Portrait: 1556 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 60.155 Julio Clovio, master of artistic miniatures: 1556
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Soldier at a Game of Chess (in French Soldat jouant aux échecs, or Le Soldat à la partie d'échecs, also referred to as Joueur d'échecs), [1] is a painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. While serving as a medical orderly during World War I in Sainte-Menehould , France, Metzinger bore witness to the ravages of war firsthand.