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- The Chess Players is an 1876 genre painting by Thomas Eakins, Goodrich catalogue #96. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is a small oil on wood panel depicting Eakins' father Benjamin observing a chess match.
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Thomas Eakins American. 1876. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 730. In this painting, the artist’s father watches a chess game between two friends in a Renaissance Revival parlor of a Philadelphia home. Eakins honored his father with a Latin inscription on the drawer of the chess table, which translates as “Benjamin Eakins’s son ...
Feb 22, 2021 · There is a painting that once hung in the Louvre museum in Paris, painted by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch. Today, the painting is popularly known as “Checkmate.” It is now in private hands, having been sold in a Christie’s auction in 1999. The painting depicts two chess players. One is Satan, who appears arrogantly confident.
Aug 28, 2023 · The players' faces are partially illuminated, creating an eerie and dramatic atmosphere that mirrors the intellectual tension on the chessboard. The use of light and shadow also serves as a visual metaphor for the intricate interplay of moves and counter-moves that characterize a chess game.
The popular story that the king has one more move is recounted again and again even today about a chess master (often unnamed) who “encounters” a copy of the Moritz Retzsch painting "Checkmate" (originally titled Die Schachspieler “The Chess Players”) in a museum. He closely examines the chess board and realizes the young man’s chess ...
Jul 19, 2024 · This is one of the most famous paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola and also more proof that chess was for centuries a game popular among women as much as men. The Chess Game depicts three of Sofonisba’s sisters: Lucia (left), Europa (middle), and Minerva (right).
Moritz Retzsch. Die Schachspieler (The Chess Players) Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden.
Portrait of Chess Players. Marcel Duchamp prized the intellectual rigor of chess, and he sought a similarly conceptual basis for his art. This painting depicts the artist’s older brothers facing each other across a chessboard: Raymond Duchamp-Villon on the left, and Jacques Villon on the right.
