The Brothers Le Nain
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
C. D. Dickerson III and Esther Bell; With prefaces by Colin B. Bailey and Pierre Rosenberg and contributions by Claire Barry, Emerson Bowyer, Elise Effmann Clifford, Don H. Johnson, Frédérique Lanoë, Nicolas Milovanovic, and Alain Tallon
View Inside
Format: HardcoverPrice: $75.00
In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1598–1648), Louis (c. 1600/1605–1648), and Mathieu (1607–1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-class leisure activities, and particularly for their representations of peasant families, who gaze out at the viewer. The uncompromising naturalism of these compositions, along with their oddly suspended action, imparts a sense of dignity to their subjects.
Featuring more than sixty paintings highlighting the artists’ full range of production, including altarpieces, private devotional paintings, portraits, and the poignant images of peasants for which the brothers are best known, this generously illustrated volume presents new research concerning the authorship, dating, and meaning of the works by well-known scholars in the field. Also groundbreaking are the results of a technical study of the paintings, which constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on the Le Nain brothers.
Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Exhibition Schedule:
Kimbell Art Museum
(05/22/16–09/11/16)
de Young Museum, San Francisco
(10/08/16–01/29/17)
Musée du Louvre-Lens
(03/22/2017–06/26/2017)
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Kimbell Art Museum
(05/22/16–09/11/16)
de Young Museum, San Francisco
(10/08/16–01/29/17)
Musée du Louvre-Lens
(03/22/2017–06/26/2017)
Publication Date: June 28, 2016
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
275 color + 16 b/w illus.
