Les joueurs de cartes. Cézanne became interested in depicting labourers playing cards in the autumn of 1890. During the 1890s he completed five paintings of this subject. Here; the composition is refined down to two men seated across a table in undefined surroundings. The players face each other but are immersed in the ritual of the game. Farm workers from the estate of Cézanne?™s father posed for the two figures. They are the human equivalents of the painter?™s views of Mount Saint Victoire: timeless; monumental and resolutely Provençal.