The Card Players
Paul Cézanne
$63.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Card Players, painted by Paul Cézanne between 1890 and 1892, stands as one of the most celebrated works in the history of Post-Impressionist art. Housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this monumental composition depicts two peasant men absorbed in a quiet game of cards — a subject Cézanne revisited across a celebrated series of five paintings, each progressively stripped of extraneous figures to achieve greater formal intensity.
Working in oil on canvas, Cézanne employed his signature method of building form through deliberate, structured brushstrokes and a muted, harmonious palette of ochres, greens, and deep blues. The figures are rendered with a weighty solidity that anticipates the geometric abstraction of twentieth-century Modernism, while the composition's pyramidal balance lends the scene an almost monumental, timeless dignity. Far from mere genre painting, The Card Players transforms an everyday moment into a meditation on stillness, concentration, and human presence.
This masterwork is presented as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped over a 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame. Ready to hang and crafted to museum standards, it brings the gravitas and painterly richness of Cézanne's original directly into your space.
| Artist | Paul Cézanne |
| Year | 1890–92 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 25 3/4 x 32 1/4 in. (65.4 x 81.9 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
