Peasants in front of a House

Louis Le Nain (French, 1600 to 1610–1648)

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions56.5 x 66 cm (22 1/4 x 26 in.)

Credit LineClara Bertram Kimball Fund

Accession number22.611

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceFebruary 27, 1777, anonymous ("consigned from abroad") sale, Christie's, London, lot 64, to Lord Carlisle, probably Frederick Howard (b. 1748 - d. 1824), 5th Earl of Carlisle [see note 1]; by inheritance within the family George Howard (b. 1843 - d. 1911), 9th Earl of Carlisle, and his wife, Rosalind Frances Stanley Howard (b. 1845 - d. 1921), Castle Howard [see note 2]; May 10, 1922, Countess of Carlisle and others sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 88, to the MFA for $2762. (Accession date: June 1, 1922)

NOTES:
[1] As "A Country Family." George Redford, Art Sales (London, 1888), vol. 2, p. 278, records the buyer as Lord Carlisle, suggesting it is the same painting that descended in the family through the nineteenth century and was sold in 1922. [2] Mentioned and described in "The Private Collections of England, XXV. Castle Howard," The Athenaeum no. 2551 (September 16, 1876), p. 377 as "View of a Village Street" and lent to the exhibition The Brothers Le Nain and Other Works of Art (Burlington House, London, 1910), cat. no. 33, as "Peasant Life."