File:La tabagie, Le Nain.jpg

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Smokers in an Interior

Artist

Le Nain Brothers (fl. 17^th century date QS:P,+1650–00–00T00:00:00Z/7 )
Alternative names	Antoine Le Nain (* 1588; † 25 May 1648) Louis Le Nain (* 1597/1607; † 1648) Mathieu Le Nain (* circa 1607; † 1677)
Description	French painter
Work period	Baroque era QS:P2348,Q37853
Work location	France
Authority file	: Q809658 WGA: l/le_nain

Title

Soldiers smoking in a in interior

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Date

1643

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 117 cm (46 in); width: 137 cm (53.9 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

English: Department of Paintings; Sully, Second Floor, Room 28, XVIIIth c. French Paintings

Français : Département des Peintures ; Sully, 2e étage, Salle 28, Peintures françaises XVIIIe s

Accession number

R.F. 1969.24

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Joconde database: entry 000PE001739

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Tabagie (room)

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LE NAIN brothers

(b. 1598/1610, Laon, d. Louis and Antoine: 1648, Mathieu: 1677, Paris)

Smokers in an Interior 1643 Oil on canvas, 117 x 137 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

Not all the Le Nain genre scenes depict peasants. Some of them show middle-class sitters, even rarer in art than the depiction of the poor. It is one of these larger 'bourgeois compositions' which admits the Le Nain brothers into that small group of painters capable of creating a masterpiece. This is the Smokers in an Interior in the Louvre, dated 1643. Its technique must have been learned during the painting of the Forge, but the brushwork is far more precise. The composition is much less original, being closer to the type familiar from the Dutch. The figures are grouped round a table illuminated by a solitary candle, and the figure on the left has fallen asleep at the table.

In this painting it seems that the depiction of low life - here middle-class men smoking in an interior - has risen beyond its normal pictorial limitations to create a masterpiece which is, perforce, unexpected. While Nicolas Poussin was obsessed with the concept of beauty and with the need to be able to paint exactly what he thought, here the painter's desire arises from an opposite need, the need to observe. Each of the models appears to be a portrait, although it is difficult to explain why the sitters should have chosen to be depicted with such casualness. There is no clue to the possibility of a confraternity, although the curious emblems on the carpet on the table could be symbols of some secret society. The eerie quality of the picture is emphasized by the fall of the shadows on the faces and by the way in which the figures stare into space just like the peasants in other pictures and the seated figure on the right has all the appearance of being under the influence of some drug.

There is no satisfactory explanation for such a picture; it is as if this trio of painters, observers of a small fragment of their times, never intended the meanings of their pictures to be divined.

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Author: LE NAIN brothers Title: Smokers in an Interior Time-line: 1601-1650 School: French Form: painting

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