After Mathieu le Nain

A family with a horse in a stable

Details

After Mathieu le Nain
A family with a horse in a stable
oil on canvas
28½ x 36¼ in. (72.5 x 92 cm.)

Provenance

Private Collection, near Nantes.

Literature

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E.K. Waterhouse, 'A Le Nain exhibition in Paris', Burlington Magazine, LXV, no. 378, September 1934, p. 132 (as 'Louis Le Nain').
M. Davies, 'Signed Lenains', Burlington Magazine, LXVI, no. 387, June 1935, p. 294.
G. Isarlo, 'Les trois Le Nain et leur suite', La Renaissance, March 1938, p. 22, illustrated p. 23, fig. 33.
J. Thuillier, Les Frères Le Nain, Paris, Grand Palais, exhibition catalogue, 1979, pp. 293-94, under no. 64, illustrated p. 294.
Paris, Nouveau Drouot, Dessins anciens, important tableaux anciens..., 27 April 1983, p. 19, cited under entry for lot 29.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint des le Nain, Paris, 1993, pp. 89-90, no. 66C, illustrated p. 90 (as 'an original but odiously restored' according to E. Waterhouse in Burlington Magazine, p.132).

Exhibited

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Paris, Petit Palais, Les Le Nain, June-October 1934, no. 25 (as 'Louis Le Nain').
London, Ontario, McIntosh Memorial Gallery, 17th-18th Century French Masters, 14 February-14 March 1953 (as 'Louis Le Nain').
Wichita, Art Museum, Three centuries of French painting, 9-23 May 1954, no. 1 (as 'Louis Le Nain').

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Lot Essay

Pierre Rosenberg (Tout l'oeuvre peint des le Nain, Paris, 1993, pp. 89-90, no. 66C, illustrated p. 90) has noted the existence of several extant versions of this composition, and attributes the lost original to Mathieu le Nain, placing it in the early 1640s. Pierre Rosenberg tentatively identifies the original as lot 266 in a sale in Paris, 2-4 February 1813. Other versions are in the Asschere Collection, London (66A); formerly on the French art market (66B); and a variant in vertical format, apparently cropped on both sides, in the Musée Municipal, Laon (66D).

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