About the Artwork
The Game of Cards
ca. 1660
Hendrik van der Burch
1627-after 1666
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 3/4 × 26 1/4 inches (78.1 × 66.7 cm) Framed: 39 3/8 × 34 5/8 × 4 inches (100 × 87.9 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Newberry
29.2
Public Domain
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Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Newberry (Detroit, Michigan, USA);1929-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Valentiner, W.R. "The Card Players by Hendrick van der Burch." Bulletin of the DIA 10, no. 8 (May 1929): pp. 102-103 (cover ill.).
Valentiner, W.R. Pieter de Hooch Des Meisters Gemälde. Stuttgart, Berlin, and Leipzig, 1929, pp. 235, 294.
Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs. Exh. cat., Galerie Dr. Schäfer. Berlin, 1929, cat. 14.
Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Detroit, 1929, p. xii, cat. 11.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 24 (ill.).
Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit, 1931 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 19, no. 24.
Treasures of Dutch Old Masters. Exh. cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnepeg, 1952, cat. 26 (ill.)
Sutton, P.C. "Hendrick van der Burch." Burlington Magazine 122 (1980): p. 324, cited in footnote 55.
Delft masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum het Prinsenhof. Delft, 1996, pp. 174-175 (fig. 172).
Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 16, 17 (ill.)
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 52–53, no. 17 (ill.).
Brook, T. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. New York and London, 2008, pp. 185-188, 210, (ill.) pl. 7.
Massing, Jean Michel. The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Europe and the World Beyond, vol. 3, part 2. London, 2011, pp. 236–237 (ill.).
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Hendrik van der Burch, The Game of Cards, ca. 1660, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Newberry, 29.2.
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