An elderly woman sits on a small stool and four children stand along the foreground of a landscape with rolling, olive-green fields leading back to low, slate-gray mountains in this nearly square painting. The horizon comes about halfway up the painting, and the sky above is filled with a sheet of steel-gray clouds that break to reveal patches of ice-blue sky. Closest to us and along the left edge of the painting, the woman sits near a structure with a fragment of wall and a column that could be made from tan-colored stone. The woman faces our right in profile and looks at or toward three…
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Landscape with Peasants

Louis Le Nain (French, c. 1600/1603 - 1648)

c. 1640

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46.5 x 57 cm (18 5/16 x 22 7/16 in.) ; framed: 71.1 x 81.9 x 10.2 cm (28 x 32 1/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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