Family of Country People by Louis Le Nain; 1640. Oil on canvas. Located in the Louvre in Paris.
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- "Family of the Country People" was part of the Baroque movement in France. A theatrical and very dramatic human scene is witnessed in this painting, as in Caravaggio's (but to more of an extreme).
- Le Nain represents a very miserable and dreary scene of a peasant family in France. The family has no reason for joy or merriment, however, they are strangely stoic and dignified. Le Nain casted his subjects in a very respectable manner, disregarding the circumstances from which they came.
- I chose this painting because its composition and the skill of the painter is able to clearly, and very emotionally, portray the human drama before him.
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