The flageolet player

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


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1650s
Height:
55.5 cm  (21 7/8 in.)
Width:
66.5 cm  (26 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Victoria and Albert Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: CAI.18]

Description

A woman and a man sit casually while a small boy plays a flageolet between them. A boy sits on top of the lime kiln while workers are shown in the background.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flageolet [3946]

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) 314-317, cat. no. 53. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5145