Preparations for the dance

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

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1640-1645

Height:

36.3 cm  (14 5/16 in.)

Width:

46.5 cm  (18 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Description

A group of children are gathered and a boy to the most left of the painting is playing a kit.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kit [3571]

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) 344-345, cat. no. 61. ISBN 9780300218886.

Notes

A painting with the same title by Antoine Le Nain with a similar scene can be found in Lowther Castle (see RIdIM item 5147).

RIdIM record id

5146