The young musicians

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


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1640-1645
Height:
19.5 cm  (7 11/16 in.)
Width:
25.5 cm  (10 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on copper

    Item location

  • Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
    [Museum inv. no.: 218 (1966.1)]

Description

Five young children gather while one boy in the middle plays the castanets and another boy to the far right plays a kit.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Castanets [2423]
Kit [3571]

RIdIM images


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) 350-353, cat. no. 63. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5148