The Draught Players
| The Draught Players | |
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| Artist | Jean-Léon Gérôme |
| Year | 1859 |
| Type | Oil on panel, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 40.3 cm × 28.6 cm (15.9 in × 11.3 in) |
| Location | |
The Draught Players (French: Arnauts jouant aux échecs) is an 1859 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.[1] A genre painting, it depicts a game of draughts in Cairo. The players have been identified as Arnauts, Albanian soldiers on the service of Egypt.[2]
It typifies the fashionable Orientalism in a European art of the period. The painting featured at the Exposition Universelle of 1867 held in Paris, a retrospective of artworks since 1855.[3]
The picture was acquired by the Francophile art collector the Marquess of Hertford, having previously belonged to the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. It now forms part of the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square in London.[4]
References
- ↑ Weinberg, Bolger & Curry p.18-19
- ↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-draught-players-209313
- ↑ Mainardi p.169-70
- ↑ https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultDetailView/result.tab.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SelementList&sp=0&sp=0&sp=999&sp=SdetailView&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=SdetailBlockKey&sp=1
Bibliography
- Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection: French Nineteenth Century. Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1985.
- Mainardi, Patricia. Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867. Yale University Press, 1987.
- Weinberg, Helene Barbara, Bolger, Doreen & Curry, David Park. American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994.
