# The Peasant Meal [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE NAIN brothers]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 97 x 122 cm ## Commentary LE NAIN brothers \(b. 1598/1610, Laon, d. Louis and Antoine: 1648, Mathieu: 1677, Paris\) The Peasant Meal 1642 Oil on canvas, 97 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The Louvre has two paintings depicting peasant families by Le Nain. This one of them is an austere and virile work. The other one, however, strikes a note of profound intimacy, a warmth of spirit, like the atmosphere of a domestic festivity. ## 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]()