# Four Figures at a Table [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE NAIN brothers]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 61 cm ## Commentary LE NAIN brothers \(b. 1598/1610, Laon, d. Louis and Antoine: 1648, Mathieu: 1677, Paris\) Four Figures at a Table 1630s Oil on canvas, 51 x 61 cm Private collection Four Figures at a Table is among the most celebrated of the Le Nain brothers' compositions. It is known in many copies, the version in the National Gallery, London is considered to be an original. The present canvas is only the second version to be attributed definitively to the brothers. It is by a different brother than the one who executed the London version. It is largely the work of Mathieu, who often revised his brothers' pieces. The painting, an interior scene, features four peasants: a young boy, a small girl, a young woman and an older woman. But this variation contains elements that appear in no other known version of the composition, including the picture in the National Gallery. In all other versions, the interior is entirely bare-bones, but here there are elements of pots and crockery. ## 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 Table]() - [Landscape with Peasants and a Chapel]() - [Landscape with Peasants]() - [Milkmaid's Family]() - [Peasant Family]() - [Peasant Interior]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()