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Caravaggio · c.1596–97

The Cardsharps

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A well-dressed young man studies his cards while an older cheat in torn gloves reads them over his shoulder and signals to an accomplice, who reaches for an extra card tucked into his belt. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

Up to 22.2 × 16 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

22.2″16″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Cardsharps

The Cardsharps (I bari) shows a naive youth of privilege falling victim to two card cheats. The original is generally agreed to be the canvas acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum in 1987, although Caravaggio may have painted more than one version.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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