The Billiard Room

A billiard table dominates a high-ceilinged interior where men in early nineteenth-century dress play, watch, and talk under a lit chandelier. A red-coated man leans over the cloth while a dog trots across the tiled floor at lower right, and a figure in a blue cloak sits in the foreground.

Look closer: A dark cloak hangs on the wall beside the open door on the right.

Artist

Nicolas Antoine Taunay

Date

after 1810

Medium

Oil on wood

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2965 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982