The End of the Game of Cards

1865

18 cm 22.2 cm

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Two gentlemen in Louis XIII attire have fought a fatal duel over a game of tarot. One lies dead with his head resting on an overturned chair and the other, clasping his chest, expires in the background. Strewn across the floor are the cards with the two swords and three coin...

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William Hood Stewart, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William Hood Stewart Sale, American Art Galleries, New York, 1898, no. 110 [1]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1898, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] sold for $9000 (annotated auction catalog, WAM library)
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