Le Nain
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
One name boldly signed to the Splendid Century is Le Nain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet M. Lhote, preaching his crusade against disorder, picks out the Le Nain and sets them up as an example.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
I can quite understand M. Lhote's liking for the brothers Le Nain, because I share it.
From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive
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