In the pictures of the Game of Chess and the Game of Cards, the artist shows the domestic scene not in its ordinariness, but as something much more significant and mysterious; he uses the motive of the game to penetrate the characters of people, to convey the diversity of their psychological types.
Related Paintings
Card Game by Lucas van Leiden 
Playing chess with Tracy by Peter Blake 
The quarrel in the game of cards by Adrian Brouwer 
Healing of Jericho Blindness (Triptych Side Sash) by Lucas-van Leiden 
Card Players by Paul Cezanne 
Game by Michael Parkes 
Still life with a dog and a bait game near a rose bush by Francois Deport 
Cartes à jouer – Lucas van Leiden