VOS, Cornelis de
(b. 1584/85, Hulst, d. 1651, Antwerpen)

Card Players

1630s
Oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

The genre paintings of Cornelis de Vos resemble the Caravaggio-influenced compositions of his contemporaries and pupils like Jan Cossiers, Simon de Vos and Theodor Rombouts. An example is the Card Players, which depicts players at a card game, a theme which was very popular with the Flemish followers of Caravaggio. The composition is also known through an engraving made by Alexander Voet in the 1630s, which clearly identifies Cornelis de Vos as the author of the original painting.