The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is a painting produced around 1636-1638 by Georges de La Tour, now in the Louvre, which bought it in 1972.

1972, the year of La Tour’s renaissance One of George de La Tour’s masterpieces and a classic of French painting, the Cheat occupies a particular place among the …

The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds.

There exists a closely related term "card shark" that is oft used in more recent speech and literature. View all works by Georges de La Tour. One of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century French art, Georges de La Tour’s Cheat with the Ace of Clubs takes as its subject the danger of indulgence in wine, women, and gambling. Card sharp is preferred in British English, while card shark is more common in American, Canadian, and Australian English. The Adoration of the Shepherds. Boy Blowing at Lamp. Another version with notable variations is known to exist, the Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum). ?as in The Fortune Teller ? “Card Sharp,” which first appeared in my anthology The Way of the Wizard, was the first story Khanna published about Quentin Ketterly. Olga's Gallery. Appearance of an Angel to St. Joseph. The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds. The Card-Sharp with the Ace ofDiamonds, The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Clubs, and The Fortune-Teller, compare to Carravaggio’s The Cardsharps (I Bari), The Fortune-Teller . Whether through Costantino or Orsi, Caravaggio came to the notice of the prominent collector Cardinal Francesco Del Monte , who purchased Cardsharps and became the artist's first important patron, giving him lodgings in his Palazzo Madama behind the Piazza Navona , [2] then as now one of the principal squares in Rome. The Army ACE Suicide Intervention (ACE-SI) Program is a three-hour training that provides soldiers with the awareness, knowledge, and skills necessary to intervene with those at risk for suicide.ACE stands for Ask, Care, and Escort.The purpose of ACE is to help soldiers and junior leaders become more aware of steps they can take to prevent suicides and confident in their ability to do so. The Card-Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds. Education of the Virgin. 1 thought on “The Card-Sharp with Ace of Diamonds — Georges de La Tour” framirez164 January 9, 2014 6:46 pm Reply Reblogueó esto en losgirasolesdevincent . They share their main definitions—namely, (1) a professional card player, (2) a person who is skilled in card games, and (3) a person who is skilled in cheating at card games.