A Peasant Dinner, Circle of the Le Nain Brothers (1600 - 1677), Oil on Canvas

Originates from: Northern France

Circa: 1650

Dimensions: 37” W x 31” H (frame), 34.5” W x 28” H (canvas)

Absolutely brilliant genre scene of a peasant dinner, done in the circle of the brothers Le Nain (1600 - 1677), oil on canvas fitted into a custom frame. Circa 1650, this is ann incredible scene painted with lovely precision and intense character plaster across not only each figure, but the interior environment as well. A beautifully exuberant figure in red, with the coolest hat, sits with another man, back to view, sit in front of a fire, with a mother, son and feline friend beside them. On the floor, food lays strewn across while the dog eats happily beside the men. Another figure walks in, shawl draped around him, cane in hand, before a beautiful sky in the distance. The emotion each character exudes shows just what a master painting this is. An excellent representation of the emotion, beauty and chaos of life within a home. 

The brothers Le Nain, Antoine, Louis and Mathieu, were born in Picardy, Northern France. Mathieu, born in 1607, while Antoine and Louis, originally thought to have been born somewhere between 1588 and 1593, have later been given birthdates of 1600 and 1603 by the national gallery. Originally working much on religious imagery work, the brother shifted interest to genre and peasant subject matter at the turn of the 1640’s. Their work now graces the walls of the French National Gallery as well as the Louvre.