For 10 points, that series of paintings of this activity by Paul Cezanne presages a much inferior series by C.M. Coolidge of dogs engaged in one form of this activity, "playing poker."
A fool and two others are shown engaged in this activity in Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs, in which the proverb means that success has more to do with luck than intelligence. Although this activity is not "descending the Missouri," raftsmen are engaged in it in a work of George Caleb Bingham. A painting of this activity by the Le Nain brothers influenced a later series of paintings of this activity in which wine and money are notably absent. In two works from that series, a rack with four pipes hangs on the wall behind those engaged in this activity next to an intent observer, all of whom are thought to be agricultural employees of the artist's father. The mood of that series is subdued and concentrated on this activity. For 10 points, that series of paintings of this activity by Paul Cezanne presages a much inferior series by C.M. Coolidge of dogs engaged in one form of this activity, "playing poker."
A fool and two others are shown engaged in this activity in Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs, in which the proverb means that success has more to do with luck than intelligence.
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