Pauline Viardot Gambling at Baden-Baden

Pauline Viardot Gambling at Baden-Baden

Gustave Doré

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This study of a group of elegant gamblers gathered around a black-jack table in the German resort of Baden-Baden was a study for the central portion of a large painting Doré completed in 1862 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1867.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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