The concert

Le Nain, Mathieu (1607-1677) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
mid-17th century
Height:
57.2 cm  (22 1/2 in.)
Width:
67.2 cm  (26 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musée d’art et d’archéologie (Laon)
    [Museum inv. no.: 991.1]

Description

A man plays a lute while gazing at a woman playing a guitar. The two flank a small boy reading from a book and an old man behind the boy playing a flageolet.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flageolet [3946]
Lute [3394]
Guitar [3237]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Dickerson, C. D. and Esther Bell. The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of seventeenth-century France (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) 208-211, cat. no. 27. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5138