Art, literature & history
Poker
1896
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.3 x 31.8 cm (9 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Image: 17.8 x 22.3 cm (7 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1959.303
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix Vallotton. Poker. Félix Vallotton; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Poker — Félix Vallotton. 1896.
Medium: woodcut. Dimensions: Sheet: 25.3 x 31.8 cm (9 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Image: 17.8 x 22.3 cm (7 x 8 3/4 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
The bold, simplified style of Vallotton's more than 200 woodcuts made him a central figure in the late 19th-century revival of the medium. With stylized forms and striking contrasts of black and white, Vallotton effectively depicted the personality of each poker player and the brightly lit candelabra in the otherwise darkened room.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.