A Friend in Need (150 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle) preserve Artist: © William Ireland

Artist: © William Ireland

and gold carpet reproduces an early nineteenth-century French Savonnerie carpet in the White House Collection

Serial #: NP18-374-025D

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A Friend in Need (150 Piece Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle) preserve Artist: © William IrelandPainted in 1903, this is the most famous of the "Dogs Playing Poker" series of paintings by Cassius M. Coolidge. The series was originally commissioned by Brown and Bigelow to advertise their cigars. All sixteen paintings feature anthropomorphized animals but the most famous are the eleven images of dogs seated around a card table. This painting is the one that most people remember, as it has been reproduced many times in popular culture and has