# Birth of the Virgin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE NAIN brothers]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 220 x 145 cm ## Commentary LE NAIN brothers \(b. 1598/1610, Laon, d. Louis and Antoine: 1648, Mathieu: 1677, Paris\) Birth of the Virgin c. 1645 Oil on canvas, 220 x 145 cm Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris The Le Nain brothers are considered, above all, painters of peasant scenes. Nonetheless, secular compositions, such as the Bacchus and Ariadne, are painted in the full, solid style typical of the Le Nains. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Victory]() - [Bacchus and Ariadne]() - [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]() - [Peasant Interior]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()