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"tombstone": "Card Game at \"le P\u00e8re Martin\", 1859. Adolphe-F\u00e9lix Cals (French, 1810\u20131880). Oil on fabric; unframed: 49.7 x 60.7 cm (19 9/16 x 23 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.241",
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"title": "Card Game at \"le P\u00e8re Martin\"",
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"description": "Nicolas Toussaint Hadengue [1817-1877] and Marie Sandras Hadengue [1827-1893], Paris",
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"Mlle. Hadengue\u201d is inscribed on the back of the canvas; this notation may refer to Marie Sandras Hadengue, who probably consigned the painting to H\u00f4tel Drouot in 1880, three years after her husband Nicolas\u2019s death. The painting was certainly in the Hadengue collection: it appears in the 1880 Drouot sale, and furthermore, Nicolas and Cals were friends. The Hadengue family owned several paintings by the artist, including three portraits of Nicolas \u2013 one for each of their children. Nicolas found his success in the textile mills of northern France, and bought a number of paintings from artists working at the time.
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"description": "(Hadengue-Sandras sale, H\u00f4tel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 2-3, 1880, no. 6)",
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"In the Drouot sale catalogue, the painting is titled \u201cLa partie de piquet, effet de lampe.\u201d \u201cPiquet\u201d refers to \u201cSpades,\u201d and so the title translates to \u201cGame of Spades by lamplight.\u201d Although the painting is not reproduced in the catalogue, this description, along with the dimensions given and the reference to its oval shape, make the painting a clear match for the Cleveland picture.
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1980.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163\u2013219.
Published as: Two Men Playing Cards",
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"citation": "Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"biography": "After taking some printmaking and drawing lessons, Adolphe F\u00e9lix Cals entered the studio of Cogniet (q.v.) at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in 1828. His academic training resulted in a warm palette and an attention to detail, but at the same time he also developed an unusual interest in depicting the wretched existence of the poor. In the 1830s he went his own course and mostly painted landscapes around Paris. He made his debut at the Salon in 1835 and exhibited regularly until 1870, although he initially received little recognition for his landscapes and genre scenes that addressed social issues and reflected his own impoverished existence. Cals married a young aristocrat, Ernance de Provisy, who eventually went insane. He then raised their daughter, who suffered the same fate as her mother. In 1848 Cals met the art dealer \"le P\u00e8re Martin\" who steadily supported him and other painters, such as Millet (q.v.) and Corot (q.v.). Another meeting that proved crucial to Cals was one with Count Doria in 1858, who became his most important patron. After several rejections of his work at the Salon, Cals participated in the Salon des Refus\u00e9s in 1863. Cals, who had lived and worked mainly in and around Paris all his life, then left the city for Normandy (Honfleur and the Saint Sim\u00e9on farm) in 1871 and remained there until his death. He was a close friend of Jongkind (q.v.), and in 1873 the two were together in Honfleur, where many other like-minded artists such as Boudin (q.v.) gathered to study out of doors. In 1874 Cals participated in the first impressionist exhibition and continued to do so until 1879. His style evolved accordingly, and he applied a much freer brush stroke in his later work. Art critic Edmond About, who was usually not very generous with compliments, characterized Cals as the most sincere and the most genuine artist he had ever known.",
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