The resting horseman

Le Nain, Louis (ca. 1593-1648) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1640
Height:
54.6 cm  (21 1/2 in.)
Width:
67.3 cm  (26 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Victoria and Albert Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: CAI.17]

Description

A man sits with a horse and a dog while a boy plays a flageolet next to another boy. A woman, presumably their mother, stands next to them with a pot on her head.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flageolet [3946]

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) 302-305, cat. no. 50. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5143