Research Catalog

Title

The Brothers Le Nain : painters of seventeenth-century France / C.D. Dickerson III and Esther Bell ; with Claire Barry [and eight others] ; [foreword, Richard Benefield, Eric M. Lee].

Publication

• San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dickerson, C. D., III (Claude Douglas)
• Bell, Esther (Esther Susan)
• Barry, Claire M.
• Benefield, Richard
• Lee, Eric McCauley
• Kimbell Art Museum, organizer, host institution
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, organizer
• Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution
• Musée du Louvre-Lens, organizer, host institution

Description

xv, 453 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm

Summary

"In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), 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."--

Subject

• Le Nain, Antoine, 1588-1648 > Exhibitions
• Le Nain, Louis, 1593-1648 > Exhibitions
• Le Nain, Mathieu, 1607-1677 > Exhibitions
• Le Nain, Antoine, 1588-1648
• Le Nain, Louis, 1593-1648
• Le Nain, Mathieu, 1607-1677
• ART > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > Group Shows
• ART > History > Baroque & Rococo
• ART > European

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, May 22-September 11, 2016; Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, October 8, 2016-January 29, 2017; and the Musée du Louvre-Lens, France, March 22-June 26, 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-438) and index.

Contents

The Lives and Art of the Brothers Le Nain / C.D. Dickerson III -- Relocating the Brothers Le Nain / Esther Bell -- Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement : Organized Charity in the Paris of the Le Nains / Alain Tallon -- The Le Nains and the Dutch Influence : The Question of Group Portraiture / Nicolas Milovanovic -- The Brothers Le Nain : Painters of Nineteenth-Century France / Emerson Bowyer -- Catalogue / C.D. Dickerson III and Esther Bell -- The conservator's eye : the materials and painting methods of the Brothers Le Nain / Claire Barry and Elise Effmann Clifford -- Appendix I : New documents for the Le Nains / Frédérique Lanoë -- Appendix 2 : Canvas-Weave analysis / Don H. Johnson and Claire Barry.

Call Number

JQF 16-952

ISBN

• 9780300218886
• 0300218885

LCCN

• 2016002619
• 9780300218886

OCLC

926820871

Title

The Brothers Le Nain : painters of seventeenth-century France / C.D. Dickerson III and Esther Bell ; with Claire Barry [and eight others] ; [foreword, Richard Benefield, Eric M. Lee].

Publisher

San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; New Haven, CT : in association with Yale University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-438) and index.

Added Author

Dickerson, C. D., III (Claude Douglas), author. Lives and art of the brothers Le Nain.

Bell, Esther (Esther Susan), author. Relocating the Le Nains.

Barry, Claire M., author. Conservator's eye: the materials and painting methods of the Brothers Le Nain.

Benefield, Richard, writer of foreword.

Lee, Eric McCauley, writer of foreword.

Kimbell Art Museum, organizer, host institution.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, organizer.

Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.), host institution.

Musée du Louvre-Lens, organizer, host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

9780300218886

Research Call Number

JQF 16-952