Preview
Buy Print
Send
Share
Download
Similars
X-Ray
DiaporamaA Peasant Family
Baroque
1640
38.0 x 30.0 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
antoine (brother) le nain (1599 – 1648)
Discover Antoine Le Nain's realistic peasant scenes & religious artworks. Explore the Le Nain brothers' influence on 17th-century French painting.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (new york, United States of America)
Explore The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 5,000 years of art from around the world! Discover masterpieces, ancient artifacts & immersive exhibitions – a global art destination awaits.
The Le Nain brothers are famous for their sensitive portrayal of rural life, which they depicted without the ridicule found in many earlier images. It is often difficult to distinguish which of the three brothers executed a given painting, and this oil on copper has been attributed to both Antoine and Louis. A new taste for realism in the mid-1800s solidified the Le Nain brothers’ place in a canon of French painting that included Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet.
About this artwork
- Title: A Peasant Family
- Artist: antoine (brother) le nain
- Year: 1640
- Original dimensions: 38.0 x 30.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Corpus context: religious undertones , gentilesci influence
- Color palette: Earthy
- Keywords: family portrait art , earthy color palette , oil on copper art
QR Code
