Playing Cards

15th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30 × 44.1 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1951.16.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Martin Breslauer, London); purchased 1951 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA ( Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1951.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1960

  • The Cardboard Court: Playing Cards through History, Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD, 1960.

1984

  • Tarot, Jeu et Magie, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1984-1985, no. 27.

1987

  • I Tarocchi: le carte di corte: gioco e magia alla corte degli estensi, Castello Estense, Ferrara, 1987-1988, no. 17, detail repro.

2016

  • The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430-1540, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, no 9.

Bibliography

1987

  • Berti and Vitali, I TAROCCHI, Amministrazione Provinciale di Ferrara, 1987, no.17.

Wikidata ID

Q65218405

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