Card Players

Four boys crowd a table cut from a tree stump: one reaches across the top, another looks over his shoulder, a third holds his hand close to his chest and the fourth lifts a card to his face. Cards lie face up on the boards and one has fallen to the ground. Below, a beagle and a red-and-white spaniel move between the legs of the table, where books and a horn have been dropped. The group rises from a shaped base with gilded rocaille.