Antoine Le Nain
Three Young Musicianscirca 1630

Not on view

Oil painting of three young men seated at a table playing and singing with stringed instruments, sheet music, and a tankard, against a dark background

Artist or Maker: Antoine Le Nain
France, Laon, circa 1588-1648
Title: Three Young Musicians
Place Made: France
Date Made: circa 1630
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: M.58.25
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Curatorial Notes: 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.
Selected Bibliography: 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.
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.
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.

Antoine Le Nain
Three Young Musicianscirca 1630

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Antoine Le Nain
France, Laon, circa 1588-1648
Title: Three Young Musicians
Place Made: France
Date Made: circa 1630
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 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)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift
Accession Number: M.58.25
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Curatorial Notes: 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.
Selected Bibliography: 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.
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.
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.