Preparations for the dance

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

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1643

Height:

30.5 cm  (12 in.)

Width:

40.6 cm  (16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on copper

Description

A group of children and an elderly woman gather around a fire place while a boy plays an end-blown flute.

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) 346-349, cat. no. 62. ISBN 9780300218886.

Notes

This painting is very similar to another scene by Antoine Le Nain. It can be found in Staatliche Kunstalle, Karlsruhe (see RIdIM item 5146).

RIdIM record id

5147