The Card Players

1846

Richard Caton Woodville American, 1825-1856

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title The Card Players

Artwork Date 1846

Artist Richard Caton Woodville

Life Dates 1825-1856

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 55.175

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower left: R C W 1846 | Dusseldorf

Inscriptions 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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Published References

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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