Card Players in a Drawing Room Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger French In an art world dominated by the Académie Royale, Dusmesnil made his career in the less prestigious, guild-bound Académie de Saint-Luc between 1751 and 1774. The theatrical lighting and stage-set effect of the present painting are typical of the artist’s genre scenes. Dumesnil follows Jean-Francois de Troy’s pioneered tableaux de mode (paintings of fashionable society), recording details of contemporary life that include the modish card game of quadrille and a Black, probably enslaved, servant who tends the fire. Dumesnil
Card Players in a Drawing Room Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger French In an art world dominated by the Académie Royale, Dusmesnil made his career in the less prestigious, guild-bound Académie de Saint-Luc between 1751 and 1774. The theatrical lighting and stage-set effect of the present painting are typical of the artist’s genre scenes. Dumesnil follows Jean-Francois de Troy’s pioneered tableaux de mode (paintings of fashionable society), recording details of contemporary life that include the modish card game of quadrille and a Black, probably enslaved, servant who tends the fire. Dumesnil possibly painted this work between 1756 and 1759, when he resided in Bordeaux, an active port in the French slave Card Players in a Drawing Room 436230
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