# Three Young Musicians [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE NAIN brothers]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 27 x 34 cm ## Commentary LE NAIN brothers \(b. 1598/1610, Laon, d. Louis and Antoine: 1648, Mathieu: 1677, Paris\) Three Young Musicians c. 1630 Oil on panel, 27 x 34 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles The representation of a group of children is frequent in the work of the Le Nain brothers. These small-format paintings depict children singing or playing, arranged in simple compositions such as the present one. Here the figures are all standing, arranged almost in a straight line. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 17 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/17\_cent/lully\_bourgeois.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, suite</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## 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 and a Chapel]() - [Landscape with Peasants]() - [Milkmaid's Family]() - [Peasant Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()