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Vintage Scene

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 bawdy men drink in the background shade, while a sweet-faced young woman in the center surrounded by ...
1650s
Oil on canvas
92.0 x 121.0cm
1958.175.1
Image and text courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022

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