Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats)

c. 1618/1620

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: overall: 121 x 152 cm (47 5/8 x 59 13/16 in.) framed: 145.1 x 187 x 11.4 cm (57 1/8 x 73 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
Collection no.: 1998.104.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details

Valentin de Boulogne. Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats). National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

About this artwork

Official collection metadata; attribution follows named catalogue, not an independent authenticity determination. Holdings are not ownership or current display. Museum accessioned painting; no museum-highlight designation or current-display claim. Source Wikidata creator identity matched exactly. Dataset textual dates checked against numeric search dates. Full provenance, inscriptions, terms and catalogue text preserved in the separate research staging record. Attribution: primary Collection credit: Patrons' Permanent Fund.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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