The Cheat with Ace of Clubs - Analysis - Georges de la Tour

Описание: Check out the eyes on the characters in The Cheat with Ace of Clubs. They tell the story. It's a familiar tale, thanks to paintings like The Cardsharps by Caravaggio. La Tour may even have created this as a pastiche. This painter sought a better clientele because he was in Lorraine France. While the hot art markets were far away on Paris and Rome at that time. It was the late 1620s. The Cardsharps painting was around the same age as La Tour and mighty popular. His version of the story stands apart from Caravaggio's, though. That's because La Tour didn't share the elder painter's love for bad boys. Where Caravaggio shows empathy and care, La Tour prefers pure observation.

Instead of filtering the scene through his own lens, he invites us to judge. We know this thanks to illuminating details in character attire, expressions, and eyes. Each person in the painting wears distinctive clothes to convey their class and role. Their eyes tell us the most, though. When viewers notice where each character is looking, we can read the whole scene.

Even the story's sucker, on our right with closed eyes informs us. He's shutting them with a self-satisfied smugness. This matches his fancy-pants duds. Such an overdressed dandy; he seems to have spent a bank vault of money on only this outfit. It doesn't endear viewers to this character. He seems like a fool already. This card table con's only another inevitable example of his folly. Caravaggio's mark in The Cardsharps parallels this La Tour sucker. But similarities between the two paintings' characters end with them.

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