Card Players in a Drawing Room
Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger
Date unknown · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
Dumesnil followed Jean François de Troy’s pioneering tableaux de mode (paintings of fashionable society) by depicting a scene of contemporary life that includes the modish card game of quadrille and a Black, probably enslaved, servant who tends the fire. Dumesnil probably painted this canvas between 1756 and 1759, when he lived in Bordeaux, an active port in the French slave trade. In an art world dominated by the French Royal Academy, Dumesnil made his career in the less prestigious guild association of the Académie de Saint Luc.
- Artist
- Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
