- Title
- Three Young Musicians
- 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)
- Accession Number
- M.58.25
- 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
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.
