The House of Cards is an oil painting by Jean Siméon Chardin.

There are three other versions of the same motif at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington D.C., the Uffizi, in Florence and at Waddesdon Manor, in England.

Chardin painted scenes that found favor with all classes of Parisian society.

[2] The painting shows a young boy standing at a small wooden table, who is building carefully a house of playing cards.

The theme of children building houses of cards was usual at the time.