- Artist
- Antoine Le Nain
- Year
- ca. 1640
- Medium
- Oil on copper
- Dimensions
- 38.1 × 29.8 cm
Public Domain
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Antoine Le Nain’s intimate depiction of a peasant family gathered in a humble interior. The Le Nain brothers were celebrated for their dignified portrayals of common people, elevating scenes of everyday life with a quiet gravity unusual for 17th-century French painting.