Peasant interior

Le Nain, Antoine (ca. 1588-1648) (attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1640-1645

Height:

38.1 cm  (15 in.)

Width:

29.8 cm  (11 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on copper

Description

A small boy plays an end-blown flute while standing behind a man (presumably his father) who is sitting on a chair surrounded by three other boys.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]

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) 284-285, cat. no. 45. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5142