The shift of taste in the early seventeenth century, which discovered an interest in subjects drawn from common life, had different results in every place. The work of Louis Le Nain and his family, who were painters from Laon in Normandy, was essentially unparalleled anywhere. Louis Le Nain most often painted family life around meagerly furnished tables, peasant life without plenty, occasionally outdoors, on the way back from the fields. He made the subject solemnly impressive. The grave presences seen around their low table in these pictures are as restrained as the abstemious existence presented.
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