Louis Le Nain Landscape with Peasants Painting ID:: 1017 Louis Le Nain1.jpg
Landscape with Peasants 1640
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Louis Le Nain Peasant Meal (mk05) Painting ID:: 20512 new6/Louis Le Nain-599326.jpg
Peasant Meal (mk05) 1642
Canvas,38 1/4 x 48''(97 x 122 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La Caze 1869
Louis Le Nain The Cart or the Return from Haymaking (mk05) Painting ID:: 20513 new6/Louis Le Nain-528695.jpg
The Cart or the Return from Haymaking (mk05) 1641
Canvas,22 x 28 1/4''(56 x 72 cm)Legacy received in 1879
Louis Le Nain The Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05) Painting ID:: 20516 new6/Louis Le Nain-529326.jpg
The Adoration of the Shepherds (mk05) 1630-1632
Canvas 113 x 55''(287 x 140 cm)Seized in the Revolution INV
Louis Le Nain The Pilgrims at Emmaus (mk05) Painting ID:: 20518 new6/Louis Le Nain-246694.jpg
The Pilgrims at Emmaus (mk05) Canvas,29 1/4 x 36''(74 x 91 cm)Chapel of the Chateau de Rochambeau in Vendomois (until after 1948);Comte Andre de Montalivet;acquired for the Louvre in 1950
Louis Le Nain The Guard Romm (mk05) Painting ID:: 20519 new6/Louis Le Nain-528979.jpg
The Guard Romm (mk05) 1643
Canvas,46 x 54''(117 x 137 cm)Acquired in 1969
Louis Le Nain A Farrier in His Forge (mk05) Painting ID:: 20520 new6/Louis Le Nain-442747.jpg
A Farrier in His Forge (mk05) Canvas,27 1/4 x 22 1/2''(69 x 57 cm)Acquired for the collection of Louis XVI in 1777
Louis Le Nain La Charette (mk08) Painting ID:: 21560 new6/Louis Le Nain-297654.jpg
La Charette (mk08) 1641
Oil on canva,
56x72cm
Paris,Musee Natonal du Louvre
Louis Le Nain Peasants at their Cottage Door,undated (mk08) Painting ID:: 21561 new6/Louis Le Nain-635874.jpg
Peasants at their Cottage Door,undated (mk08) Oil on canvas
55x68cm
San Francisco,The Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco,Californai Palace of the Legion of Honor
Louis Le Nain Venus in the Forge of Vulcan (df01) Painting ID:: 22539 new7/Louis Le Nain-499624.jpg
Venus in the Forge of Vulcan (df01) 1641
Reims,Musee Saint-Denis
Louis Le Nain A Visit to Grandmother Painting ID:: 29261 new3/Louis Le Nain-383683.jpg
A Visit to Grandmother mk65
1640s
oil on canvas
23x29"
Louis Le Nain The Milkmaid's Family Painting ID:: 29360 new3/Louis Le Nain-747474.jpg
The Milkmaid's Family mk65
1640s
Oil on canvas
20x23"
Louis Le Nain The Peasant Family Painting ID:: 30574 new4/Louis Le Nain-292697.jpg
The Peasant Family mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris
c.1640
France
Louis Le Nain La Charette Painting ID:: 33592 new9/Louis Le Nain-854539.jpg
La Charette mk86
1641
Oil on canvas
56x72cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
Louis Le Nain Peasants at their Cottage Door Painting ID:: 33593 new9/Louis Le Nain-278683.jpg
Peasants at their Cottage Door mk86
undated
Oil on canvas
55x68cm
San Francisco
Louis Le Nain The Milkwoman-s Family Painting ID:: 34288 new10/Louis Le Nain-388533.jpg
The Milkwoman-s Family mk91
1640s
Oil on canvas
51x59
Louis Le Nain The Cart or Return from Haymaking Painting ID:: 40462 new16/Louis Le Nain-939656.jpg
The Cart or Return from Haymaking mk156
1641
Oil onwood
56x72cm
Louis Le Nain Family of Country People Painting ID:: 40463 new16/Louis Le Nain-923778.jpg
Family of Country People mk156
1640
Oil on canvas
113x159cm
Louis Le Nain Visit to Grandmother Painting ID:: 41049 new16/Louis Le Nain-297475.jpg
Visit to Grandmother mk159
1640s
Oil on canvas
58x73cm
Louis Le Nain The Milkwoman-s Family Painting ID:: 41050 new16/Louis Le Nain-666293.jpg
The Milkwoman-s Family mk159
1640s
Oil on canvas
51x59cm
Louis Le Nain Farmer family in the parlor Painting ID:: 45678 new17/Louis Le Nain-727888.jpg
Farmer family in the parlor mk186
1648 Paris muse you Louvre
Louis Le Nain Farmer meal Painting ID:: 45683 new17/Louis Le Nain-666342.jpg
Farmer meal mk186
1642 Paris muse you Louvre
Louis Le Nain Landscape with bondfolk Painting ID:: 53830 new19/Louis Le Nain-398587.jpg
Landscape with bondfolk mk234
about 1640
47x57cm
Louis Le Nain La Charette Painting ID:: 55731 new20/Louis Le Nain-935635.jpg
La Charette mk244
1641
Oil on canvas
56x72cm
Louis Le Nain Peasant family Painting ID:: 57253 new20/Louis Le Nain-572887.jpg
Peasant family mk255 for in 1642. Oil painting, 1.13 x 1.59 meters. Paris, the Louvre
Louis Le Nain young prince, c Painting ID:: 64280 new21/Louis Le Nain-794842.jpg
young prince, c 1630
nant beaux-artses, muse'e des
Louis Le Nain fransk bondkvinna Painting ID:: 67499 new23/Louis Le Nain-968638.jpg
fransk bondkvinna 1625-50
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Louis Le Nain Peasant Interior with an Old Flute Player Painting ID:: 69784 new23/Louis Le Nain-342533.jpg
Peasant Interior with an Old Flute Player oil on canvas painting by Louis Le Nain, Kimbell Art Museum
Louis Le Nain Der Bauernwagen Painting ID:: 70131 new23/Louis Le Nain-693677.jpg
Der Bauernwagen Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 56 X 72 cm
1593-1648
French
Louis Le Nain Gallery
French family of painters. Antoine Le Nain (b Laon, c. 1600; bur Paris, 26 May 1648) and his brothers Louis Le Nain (b Laon, c. 1600; bur Paris, 24 May 1648) and Mathieu Le Nain (b Laon, c. 1607; bur Paris, 26 April 1677) lived together and shared a studio in Paris. Since the studio was headed by Antoine, he is assumed to have been older than Louis. The brothers reputation rests on a number of paintings signed Le Nain, on the basis of which other paintings (but no drawings) have also been attributed to them. None of the signed paintings bears a Christian name, and there is no secure way of attributing works to the individual brothers, although many attempts have been made. Eighteenth-century sale catalogues, fearful of anonymity, effectively chose from the three names at random. Since the writings of Witt (1910) and Jamot (1922) in particular, it has been habitual to ascribe small paintings on copper to Antoine, and austere, larger peasant scenes to Louis. This division of hands will be found in almost all the subsequent literature on the artists, although it must be stressed that there is no evidence at all to support it. Great efforts have also been made to identify works by Mathieu, since he survived his brothers by nearly 30 years and presumably continued to paint after their deaths in 1648. However, no such activity after 1648 is securely documented, and none of the surviving works bears a date later than 1647; and the arguments for a separate Mathieu oeuvre, though cogent, should not be regarded as conclusive. The outstanding feature of the work of the Le Nain brothers, and the basis of their celebrity since the mid-19th century, is the artists treatment of the poor.