1654
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Vintage Scene and Peasant Children Dancing (painting pair) is a 1654 unspecified by Mathieu Le Nain, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Two boys in breeches stand in a vineyard. One holds a basket. Grapes lie scattered in the dirt. A woman in a white cap walks past. The shadows are soft. The sky is pale. This is a quiet scene from 1600s France. It shows country life without drama. The boys seem real. Their clothes look worn. See it at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
The mid-17th century saw revived interest in representations of the lower classes. Artists like the Le Nain brothers in France painted scenes that looked back to the Renaissance tradition of pastoral imagery. The Le Nain often depicted ordinary country folk going about their daily business, subjects and figures they remembered from their childhood in rural Laon. Considered a companion piece to Peasant Children Dancing (1958.175.2), Vintage Scene has also been attributed to the Master of the Béguins, a Flemish artist who worked in the manner of the Le Nain in Paris. Here, good-natured though…
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Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677) was a French artist, born in Laon.
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