Le Nain

American  

[luh nan] / lə ˈnɛ̃ /

noun

1. Antoine the Elder, 1588?–1648, and his two brothers Louis (“the Roman” ), 1593?–1648, and Mathieu 1607–77, French painters.

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Example Sentences

And they’re very different from the ennobled peasants in popular genre paintings by artists like the Le Nain brothers in France or cheery laborers by Dutch artist Johannes Lingelbach.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

One name boldly signed to the Splendid Century is Le Nain.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Le Nain contemporary, the onetime pastry cook Claude Lorrain, was a classicist, but he followed a far different path than Poussin took.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can quite understand M. Lhote's liking for the brothers Le Nain, because I share it.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

A feeble forerunner of La Caricature, entitled Le Nain Jaune, depended largely for its wit upon the variations it could improvise upon the girouette and upon the �teignoir.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber