Les Tours de Cartes

Engraver Pierre-Louis de Surugue , French, 1710-1772

After Jean-Siméon Chardin , French, 1699-1779

Title

Les Tours de Cartes

Date1744

MediumEtching and engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 24.3 x 30.6 cm

Credit LinePresumed presented, Mr T. Bodkin, 1925

Object numberNGI.11522

DescriptionThis print after a painting by Chardin exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1739 shows a young man sitting at a table, performing a card trick in front of two children who stand watching him intently. The painting is now in the National Gallery of Ireland’s Collection NGI 478.