Three Young Musicians

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Three Young Musicians

France, circa 1630
Paintings
Oil on wood
Panel: 10 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. (27.31 × 34.29 cm) Frame: 18 1/2 × 22 × 3 in. (46.99 × 55.88 × 7.62 cm)
Anonymous gift (M.58.25)
European Painting
Not currently on public view

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Antoine Le Nain's painting of three unkempt young musicians with tousled hair who appear to be in the midst of an informal concert is typical of the small, mulitfigured interior scenes painted in Pari...
Antoine Le Nain's painting of three unkempt young musicians with tousled hair who appear to be in the midst of an informal concert is typical of the small, mulitfigured interior scenes painted in Paris by Le Nain and his two brothers. His knowledge of the style of the Italian painter Caravaggio is evident here in the skillful use of strong light and saturated colors set against a dark background.
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Bibliography

  • Dickerson, C.D., III, and Esther Bell. The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2016.

  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.

  • Dickerson, C.D., III, and Esther Bell. The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2016.

  • Hopkins, Henry T., ed. Illustrated Handbook of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  West Germany:  Bruder Hartmann, 1965.
  • Rosenberg, Pierre. France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
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