Collection · 18 prints
The Con
Someone here is being robbed and has no idea
The Con art prints: paintings, engravings and vintage posters of cheats, cardsharps, fortune tellers, quack doctors and swindlers. The collection includes Georges de La Tour's The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs (1630) and The Fortune-Teller (1630), Caravaggio's The Cardsharps (1595) and The Fortune Teller (1596), Hieronymus Bosch's The Extraction of the Stone of Madness (1505), Quinten Massys's Ill-Matched Lovers (1520), Gerrit Dou's The Quack (1652) and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo's The Charlatan (1756). Later works include Jules Chéret's posters for magic shows at the Folies-Bergère (1875) and the Musée Grévin (1887) and Arthur Rackham's The Quack Frog (1912).
The selection focuses on deception in Netherlandish, Italian and French painting: card games, palm reading, false cures and ill-matched couples in which one partner is after money. In most of these scenes the victim has not yet noticed what the viewer can see.
The card and tavern scenes suit game rooms, studies, home bars and living rooms. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
