# Landscape with Peasants and a Chapel [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE NAIN brothers]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 41 x 55 cm ## Commentary LE NAIN brothers \(b. 1598/1610, Laon, d. Louis and Antoine: 1648, Mathieu: 1677, Paris\) Landscape with Peasants and a Chapel - Oil on canvas, 41 x 55 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Like their peasant scenes, the landscapes of the Le Nain brothers are careful observations of what they saw, rather than derivations from other painters' works. An example is this painting, in which, although figures dominate the foreground, the main effort has been concentrated on the landscape. In the distance there is a large village with traces of its decaying fortifications, and a small Gothic chapel outside its walls. Such a sight may still be seen today, in the remoter parts of northern and eastern France. Again, the Le Nain brothers have told us what the people and the landscape of the time looked like. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Victory]() - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Blacksmith at His Forge]() - [Family Group]() - [Four Figures at a Table \(detail\)]() - [Four Figures at a Table]() - [Four Figures at Table]() - [Landscape with Peasants]() - [Milkmaid's Family]() - [Peasant Family]() - [Peasant Interior]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()