Billiard Table Collection

VAN GOGH: NIGHT CAFE, 1888. Vincent Van Gogh: The Night Cafe. Oil on canvas, 1888

POOL HALL, 1929. An unidentified American pool hall, photographed 31 January 1929

CARTOON: ELECTION OF 1864. A little game of bagatelle, between Old Abe the railsplitter and Little Mac the gunboat general

HINE: BILLIARDS, 1910. Boys shooting a game of pool at the Pool Branch Chauteau & Manchester, St. Louis, Missouri. Photograph by Lewis Hine, May 1910

'Game of Billiards', 1807. Artist: Louis Leopold Boilly 'Game of Billiards', 1807. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

Edw. Gardner, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Edw. Gardner, 1912. Shows Edward W. Gardner playing billiards, possibly at championship game with Edouard Roudil, reported in New York Times, Feb. 18, 1912

Koji Yamada, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Koji Yamada, between c1910 and c1915

Harry Cline, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Harry Cline, between c1910 and c1915

Alfredo De Oro, Cuban billiards player, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Alfredo De Oro, Cuban billiards player, between c1910 and c1915

C. Demarest, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
C. Demarest, 1912. Shows Calvin A. Demarest, a national billiards champion

Une journée de pluie, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une journee de pluie, 19th century. A rainy day

Les merveilles de la gymnastique... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les merveilles de la gymnastique... 19th century. The billiards player by H. Daumier - The wonders of gymnastics

Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room, Detroit, Mich. between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Res. of A. Buhl, Iroquois Avenue, billiard room, Detroit, Mich. between 1905 and 1915

Billiard hall, Paul Smith's casino, Adirondack Mountains, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Billiard hall, Paul Smith's casino, Adirondack Mountains, between 1900 and 1905

Hotel Utica, billiard room, Utica, N.Y. between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Unknown
Hotel Utica, billiard room, Utica, N.Y. between 1905 and 1915

Alma Sanitarium, billiard room, Alma, Mich. between 1895 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Alma Sanitarium, billiard room, Alma, Mich. between 1895 and 1910

Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards, 1756. Creator: Johann Esaias Nilson
Ladies and Gentlemen Playing Billiards, 1756

Grand Gueux va! je voudrais t'y voir, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Grand Gueux va! je voudrais t'y voir, 19th century. Conjugal morals - grand beggars

L'accordéon, dit soufflet a musique, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'accordeon, dit soufflet a musique, 19th century. Musical studies by H. Daumier - The accordion called bellows music

Billiard Party, c1720. Creator: Jean-Simeon Chardin
Billiard Party, c1720

The Circle of the Republican Union, c1890. Creator: Unknown
The Circle of the Republican Union, c1890

Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash. D.C.: Billiard room, c1910. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Mary Scott Townsend House, Wash. D.C.: Billiard room, c1910. The Townsend House, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.; later home of Mathilde and B

Billiard room, with a deer head and an elk head, in home of Edmund... Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908
Billiard room, with a deer head and an elk head, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1908. The Conyers Farm estate, designed by Donn Barber c1904

Das Billardspielen (Billiard Players), 1756. Creator: Johann Esaias Nilson
Das Billardspielen (Billiard Players), 1756

Billiards, 1898. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Billiards, 1898

Fredericks Pray, David M Clarkson, and Sarah E Smith, posed by the billiard table... Russia, 1899
Fredericks Pray, David M Clarkson, and Sarah E Smith, posed by the billiard table, Dom Smith, Vladivostok, Russia, 1899. Showing leisure occupation described by Eleanor Pray in a letter dated January

Le Café De Nuit (the Night Café) (1888) By Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh

An eventful confrontation (colour litho)
2779268 An eventful confrontation (colour litho) by French School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: An eventful confrontation)

Billiards, after 1803. after 1803. Creator: Anon
Billiards, after 1803

Pool Room, 1890, 1935 / 1942. Creator: Perkins Harnly
Pool Room, 1890, 1935/1942

The Game of Billiards (engraving)
3648049 The Game of Billiards (engraving) by Nilson, Johann Esaias (1721-88); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Game of Billiards)

A Carom on the Chandelier, pub. 1882 (colour litho)
2646245 A Carom on the Chandelier, pub. 1882 (colour litho) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

A Victorian Christmas card of two cats playing billiards, c. 1880 (colour litho)
3603503 A Victorian Christmas card of two cats playing billiards, c.1880 (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; Photo eDavid Pearson; English, out of copyright

Primeval Billiards
LLM461973 Primeval Billiards by Reed, Edward Tennyson (1860-1933); Private Collection; (add.info.: Primeval billiards. Illustration for Prehistoric Peeps from Punch (Bradbury, Agnew)

Billiard room, Chateau de Meillant, near Bourges, France (engraving)
977839 Billiard room, Chateau de Meillant, near Bourges, France (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Billiard room, Chateau de Meillant, near Bourges, France)

Billiard table of King Louis XIV of France (engraving)
977837 Billiard table of King Louis XIV of France (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Billiard table of King Louis XIV of France)

Advertisement, 1907 (colour litho)
5991063 Advertisement, 1907 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Advertisement in Souvenir of The Oxford Historical Pageant, Commemoration, 1907 (Cheney)

A Victorian die-cut shape card of owls playing billiards, c. 1880 (colour litho)
3605762 A Victorian die-cut shape card of owls playing billiards, c.1880 (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; Photo eDavid Pearson; English, out of copyright

Illustration for Le Rire (colour litho)
2785934 Illustration for Le Rire (colour litho) by Jeanniot, Pierre Georges (1848-1934); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration for Le Rire, 4 June 1904.); © Look and Learn

Billiard Match at Thurston, 1930 (oil on canvas)
Ma283777 Billiard Match at Thurston, 1930 (oil on canvas) by English School, (20th century); 43.2x61.6 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Thurstons Leicester Square, London; J)

The Billiard Room, ca. 1725. Creator: Unknown
The Billiard Room, ca. 1725. Formerly circle of William Hogarth

The billiard game, Mid of the 19th cen. Creator: Carolus, Jean (1814-1897)
The billiard game, Mid of the 19th cen. Private Collection

Jessie Remained Alone at the Table (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. VI), July 1868

Viennese Cafe: Carambole (Wiener Cafe: Carabol), 1911. Creator: Moritz Jung
Viennese Cafe: Carambole (Wiener Cafe: Carabol), 1911

Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George... 1838
Interior of the billiard room at Lupton House, Devonshire, designed by George Wightwick for Sir J.B.Y. Buller, 1838

Billiard, from Worlds Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes, 1888

The Billiards Player, 1896. Creator: Tholen, Willem Bastiaan (1860-1931)
The Billiards Player, 1896. Private Collection

Billiard Players. Artist: Galkin, Ilya Savvich (1860-1915)
Billiard Players. Private Collection

Billiard Room, 1902. Artist: Holden, Albert William (1848-1932)
Billiard Room, 1902. Private Collection

Game of Billiards, 1807. Artist: Louis Leopold Boilly
Game of Billiards, 1807. Detail. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (1835-1910). Mark Twain: American humourist and writer. Photographed at home, with his billiard table (a gift from the wife of financier Henry Huttleston Rogers), c1906

WILLIAM HOPPE (1887-1959). William Willie Frederick Hoppe. American billiard player. Photographed in 1920

LUDLOW STREET JAIL, 1868. The billiard room in the Ludlow Street Jail, situated at the corner of Ludlow Street and Essex Market Place, New York City. Wood engraving from an American newspaper of 1868

Cigarette case with two satyrs playing Russian billiard, 1884. Artist: Russian master
Cigarette case with two satyrs playing Russian billiard, 1884. Private Collection

Ladies Playing Billiards, 1869. Artist: Boutibonne, Charles-Edouard (1816-1897)
Ladies Playing Billiards, 1869. Private Collection

Game of Billiards, ca 1620-1625. Artist: Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de (1589-1662)
Game of Billiards, ca 1620-1625. Found in the collection of British Museum

Game of Billiards. Artist: Beda, Francesco (1840-1900)
Game of Billiards. Private Collection

Men in a coffee house with a Billiard room, 1814. Artist: Marcus, Jacob Ernst (1774-1826)
Men in a coffee house with a Billiard room, 1814. Found in the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Billiard Room at Menil-Hubert, 1892. Artist: Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Billiard Room at Menil-Hubert, 1892. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris

The Billiard Room, Early 19th cen Artist: Anonymous
The Billiard Room, Early 19th cen.. Found in the collection of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

In Balk, 1890. Artist:s Rejchan
In Balk, 1890. A print from The Graphic, Christmas number, December 1890

Henri Gouraud, French soldier, playing billiards, 1895. Gouraud (1867-1946) first came to prominence in French Sudan in the 1890s, where he succeeded in capturing Samori

The Hall at Silverbeck, c1880-1882. A print from Modern Artists, prepared under the direction of FG Dumas, JS Virtue and Co, London, c1880-1882

Billiard tables, 19th century. Artist: John Burley Waring
Billiard tables, 19th century. Hand-coloured later

Interiors of the Winter Palace. The Billiard Room of Emperor Alexander II, Mid of the 19th cen Artist: Hau
Interiors of the Winter Palace. The Billiard Room of Emperor Alexander II, Mid of the 19th cen.. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Night Cafe at Arles, 1888. Artist: Paul Gauguin
Night Cafe at Arles, 1888. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The billiard room, Imperial Palace, Bialowieza Forest, Russia, late 19th century. Artist: Mechkovsky
The billiard room, Imperial Palace, Bialowieza Forest, Russia, late 19th century. The Bialowieza Forest straddles what is now the border between Poland and Belarus

Men playing billiards, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

A Losing Game, 1858. Louis Napoleon to Palmerston What about my match with Montalembert? Palmerston replies, shaking his head, Very awkward for your British backers

Still Life, Billiard, 1882 (oil on canvas)
XIR901495 Still Life, Billiard, 1882 (oil on canvas) by Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901); 27x22 cm; Musee Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France; (add.info.: Nature morte billard)

Billiard-Table, by Thurston and Co

Louis XIV playing billiards with his brother, Monsieur, his nephew the duc de Chartres
XIR191356 Louis XIV playing billiards with his brother, Monsieur, his nephew the duc de Chartres, his son, the Comte de Toulouse and other relatives and courtiers, the duc de Vendome

Two Venetian Noblemen Playing Billiards (pen & ink and w / c on paper)
XIR226136 Two Venetian Noblemen Playing Billiards (pen & ink and w/c on paper) by Grevenbroeck, Jan van (1731-1807); Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; (add.info.: deux nobles jouant au billard; ); Dutch

FRANCE: COURT LIFE, 1690s. Playing billiards while waiting in The Third Room of the Apartments. One in a series of etchings from 1694-1696, by Antoine Trouvain

THOMAS HUESTON, 1921. The veteran billiard player, Thomas Hueston, returning to the game. Photograph, 10 October 1921

BILLIARDS, 1874. Froze Together. Lithograph, 1874, by Currier & Ives

WOMEN PLAYING BILLIARDS. 19th century American lithograph

HINE: NEWSBOYS, 1909. Newsboy playing billiards at the United Workers Boys Club in New Haven, Connecticut. Photograph by Lewis Hine, March 1909

Men playing billiards at Oakhill. 1928

Postcard of Peter Zielinskis Cafe in Detroit. ca. 1916, INTERIOR OF PETER ZIELINSKIs CAFE, 739 23RD ST. DETROIT, MICH

Billiard-table, By Thurston And Co

A newly arrived immigrant from Ireland being welcomed at an Irish pub in New York City. American cartoon, c1885
IMMIGRANTS: IRISH, c1885. A newly arrived immigrant from Ireland being welcomed at an Irish pub in New York City. American cartoon, c1885

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"Exploring the Artistic Evolution of Billiard Tables: From Van Gogh's Night Cafe to Victorian Christmas Cards" Billiard tables have been a source of inspiration for artists throughout history, capturing the essence of leisure and camaraderie. Vincent Van Gogh's iconic painting, "Night Cafe, " depicts a bustling scene where billiard tables serve as focal points, inviting patrons to engage in friendly competition. The vibrant colors and expressive brushstrokes bring these games to life. In 1929, an unidentified American pool hall was immortalized through photography. This snapshot captures the ambiance of a bygone era, with players engrossed in intense matches while others observe from afar. It showcases how billiards transcends time and remains a beloved pastime. Photographer Lewis Hine documented boys shooting pool at the Pool Branch Chauteau & Manchester in St. Louis during 1910. Through his lens, he captured their youthful enthusiasm and determination as they honed their skills on the green felt surface. Even political cartoons embraced billiards as symbols of rivalry and strategy. A lithograph from the presidential election of 1864 portrays Abraham Lincoln playing bagatelle against General George B. McClellan—a playful metaphor for their political battle. Albert William Holden's artwork titled "Billiard Room" transports us to an elegant setting where refined individuals engage in spirited matches amidst opulent surroundings. The attention to detail highlights both the game itself and its social significance during that period. An eventful confrontation depicted in a color lithograph immerses viewers into an intense moment on the billiard table—an embodiment of skillful precision combined with strategic thinking. The anonymous creator behind "Billiards" after 1803 presents us with an intriguing glimpse into historical gameplay techniques—showcasing how this popular sport has evolved over centuries. Perkins Harnly's photographs from 1890-1942 capture various pool rooms across different eras, showcasing the changing aesthetics and atmospheres surrounding billiard tables.