About the Artwork
The Card Players
1846
Richard Caton Woodville
1825-1856
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 18 1/2 × 25 inches (47 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 27 1/8 × 33 9/16 × 2 5/8 inches (68.9 × 85.2 × 6.7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
55.175
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: R C W 1846 | Dusseldorf
Inscribed, at lower left:R C W 1846 | Dusseldorf
Provenance
1847-1849, Thomas Foster (Utica, New York, USA).from 1849, William J. Hoppin.
the Hoppin family.
Argosy Gallery (New York, New York, USA).
Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1955-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Letter: William Woodville V to Charles Folsom, July 22, 1847 and October 3, 1847. Library of the Boston Athenaeum.
Letter: William Woodville V to American Art Union, October 26, 1847 and November 14, 1847. New-York Historical Society.
“Fine Arts. Playing at Cards in an Inn-by R. C. Woodville.” New York Evening Express (November 27, 1847): p. 1.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual. Philadelphia, 1847, no. 11 ½.
American Art Union Annual. New York, 1847, no. 180.
American Art Union Annual. New York, 1849, no. 1366.
Bulletin American Art Union (May 1849, October 1849, May 1850, September 1850).
The Washington Exhibition, in Aid of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts, at the American Art-Union Gallery, 497 Broadway. Exh. cat., American Art-Union. New York, 1853, no. 87.
Catalogue of the First Exhibition of Paintings, Statuary, and Other Works of Art. Exh. cat., Rhode Island Art Association. Providence, 1854, no. 170.
Artists’ Fund Society Annual. Exh. cat. New York, 1860, no. 77.
Centennial Exposition. Exh. cat. Philadelphia, 1876, no. 81.
Cowdrey, Bartlett. American Collector, Vol. 13. 1944, p. 6.
Bulletin of the DIA 35, 1 (1955-1956): pp. 12-14 (ill.).
Tobacco and Smoking in Art. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1960, no. 15.
Art News 66, 3 (May 1967): p. 31 (ill.).
Richard Caton Woodville: An Early American Genre Painter. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1967, no. 7 (ill.).
Heritage and Horizon. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Gallery. Buffalo, 1976, no. 18 (ill.).
“Family Art Game.” DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit Free Press (May 20, 1979): p. 15 (ill.).
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Richard Caton Woodville, The Card Players, 1846, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 55.175.
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