Paul Cézanne: The Card Players (Les Joueurs de cartes), Paul Cézanne, 1890–1892, Oil on canvas, For much of the 1890s, Paul Cézanne lived at his father's estate in Aix-en-Provence, painting the southern France landscape and the people who worked on the property. Here, Cézanne shows a group of farmhands enjoying a game of cards—one of five canvases he devoted to this subject. In this one, the largest and most ambitious of the series, Cézanne gives these humble figures an imposing presence, depicting them on a scale usually reserved for grander subjects like history or mythology. His card player

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