Francisque Eduard Bertier (x-x)
[Francisque Edouard Bertier, Francoise Bertier]

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Cabanel

Francisque Edouard Bertier was another French artist, born in Paris, and educated in the studios of Cabanel. After achieving success in Paris, he some years ago visited America, and opened a studio in New York, where he painted many portraits and genre subjects, and where his home was the centre of a refined social circle. he died upon his return to France. "A Trick at Cards" represents a Spanish gypsy girl, who is giving a sleight-of-hand performance before some impromptu rural audience in a country barn or the stable of an inn, the customary theatres for these entertainments of the itinerant mountebanks.

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