The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil painting produced around 1636-1638 by Georges de La Tour, It is now in the Louvre, which bought it in 1972. Though its commissioner is unknown, it is signed Georgius
De La Tour fecit under the card sharp's elbow and in the shadow of the tablecloth.
The work depicts a card game in which the well-to-do young man on the right is being fleeced of his money by the other players, who both appear to be complicit in the scheme. The card sharp on the left is actually
in the process of retrieving the ace of diamonds from behind his back.
A second autograph version by the same artist, known as The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, with "abundant variations in details of color, clothing, and accessories" was purchased in 1981 by the Kimbell Art
Foundation and is on display in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
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