♣ The queen of clubs

百花王画廊The gallery

Every painting, print and engraving on these walls was made by hand, long ago, and is now free for everyone to enjoy. Hover or tap a frame to see its true colours; each label says who made it and where the original hangs.

Four card players by candle-dark light; the man on the left hides an ace of diamonds behind his back — *The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds*
Georges de La Tour, c. 1635 · Musée du Louvre, Paris

Public domain · source

A young man studies his cards while an older man signals to an accomplice who hides extra cards behind his back — *The Cardsharps*
Caravaggio, c. 1595 · Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

Public domain · source

A hand-painted oval playing card of a queen in a green gown holding a hunting noose — *Queen of Nooses*
The Cloisters Playing Cards, South Netherlands, c. 1475-80 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

CC0 · source

A painted playing card of a king in a red cloak on a white horse, a falcon on his raised hand — *King of Falcons*
Ambras Court Hunting Pack, attributed to Konrad Witz, c. 1440-45 · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Public domain · source

Art Nouveau panel of a woman in a pale gown surrounded by tall white lilies — *Lily, from “The Flowers”*
Alphonse Mucha, 1898 · Mucha Foundation

Public domain · source

A pale veiled figure floats above a girl sitting among white lilies — *Madonna of the Lilies*
Alphonse Mucha, 1905 · Mucha Foundation

Public domain · source

Two girls in white dresses light paper lanterns among lilies and roses at dusk — *Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose*
John Singer Sargent, c. 1885-86 · Tate Britain, London

Public domain · source

Woodblock print of orange-pink lilies with dark green leaves on a pale blue ground — *Lilies, from the “Large Flowers” series*
Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1833 · Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain (CC0) · source

A woman and a man play chess on a large board while a crowd of onlookers leans in — *The Game of Chess*
Lucas van Leyden, c. 1508 · Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Public domain · source

Woodblock print of two young women in patterned kimono playing sugoroku, a dice board game, one shaking the dice cup — *Sugoroku Players*
Torii Kiyohiro, c. 1750 · Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain (CC0) · source

Woodblock triptych of elegant women gathered in a room, pulling strings to draw lots for prizes — *Drawing Lots for Prizes (Hōbiki)*
Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1798 · Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain (CC0) · source

Woodblock print of two young women in a room, one standing with a book, the other lying on the floor reading — *Two Young Women Reading Books*
Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767-68 · Art Institute of Chicago

Public domain (CC0) · source

Oil painting of a young woman in a white áo dài tilting her head towards a vase of white lilies — *Young Woman with Lilies (Thiếu nữ bên hoa huệ)*
Tô Ngọc Vân, 1943 · Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi

Public domain (artist died 1954) · source

Ornaments

Small things, old lines

The lilies hidden around the academy, the chip logo, the card backs and the link-preview card are recoloured details of two old botanical engravings.

Madonna Lily by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911. Used for the hidden lilies, the chip logo and the card backs (detail, recoloured). Public domain · source
White Lily, plate 278 by William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine, 1794. Used for the link-preview card (recoloured gold). Public domain · source

From the show

Official screenshots

The faces on my top-six cards are real frames from the Kakegurui anime. Unlike the paintings they are not public domain: they belong to their creators, and I show them small and credited, the way a fan quotes a favourite scene.

Ririka Momobami: Kakegurui ×× (anime, MAPPA, 2019). Image via the Kakegurui Wiki · source
Rumia Uru: Kakegurui ×× (anime, MAPPA, 2019). Image via the Kakegurui Wiki · source
Tsuzura Hanatemari: Kakegurui Twin (anime, MAPPA, 2022). Image via the Kakegurui Wiki · source
Yumeko Jabami: Kakegurui (anime, MAPPA, 2017). Image via the Kakegurui Wiki · source
Mikura Sado: Kakegurui Twin (anime, MAPPA, 2022). Image via the Kakegurui Wiki · source
Sakura Miharutaki: Kakegurui Twin (anime, MAPPA, 2022). Image via the Kakegurui Wiki · source

Kakegurui © Homura Kawamoto & Tōru Naomura / Square Enix. Kakegurui Twin © Homura Kawamoto & Kei Saiki / Square Enix. Anime by MAPPA.

百花王画廊The gallery

Small things, old lines

Official screenshots

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