The village piper

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


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1642-1644
Height:
22.5 cm  (8 7/8 in.)
Width:
30.5 cm  (12 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on copper

    Item location

  • Detroit Institute of Arts
    [Museum inv. no.: 30.280]

Description

A group of children are standing around a man sitting and playing an end-blown flute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown flute [3940]

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) 354-357, cat. no. 64. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5149