id:			135141
accession number:	1958.174
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.174
updated:		2025-02-14 13:29:49.448000

A Family Meal, c. 1645–55 or later. Le Nain family (French), after Le Maître des Jeux (French). Oil on canvas; framed: 111.8 x 142.2 x 10.2 cm (44 x 56 x 4 in.); unframed: 92 x 120.5 cm (36 1/4 x 47 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Salmon P. Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle 1958.174

title:				A Family Meal
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creation date:			c. 1645–55 or later
creation date earliest:		1640
creation date latest:		1660
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Salmon P. Halle in memory of Salmon Portland Halle
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culture:	France, 17th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - French 17th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Le Nain family (French)  - artist

* Le Maître des Jeux (French)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 111.8 x 142.2 x 10.2 cm (44 x 56 x 4 in.); Unframed: 92 x 120.5 cm (36 1/4 x 47 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Les Frères Le Nain (The Brothers of Nain)
	opening date:   1978-10-03T04:00:00
	<i>Les Frères Le Nain (The Brothers of Nain)</i>. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (October 3, 1978-January 8, 1979).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA 1934: "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", no catalogue', 'opening_date': '1934-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Toledo (ohio) Museum of Art, 1947: "The Brothers Le Nain," cat. no. 12, illus.', 'opening_date': '1947-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Paris, Grand Palais, 1978/79: " Les Fréres Le Nain," cat. no. 68, pp. 254, 258, 300-301, repr. (catalogue by Jacques Thullier and Michel Laclotte).', 'opening_date': '1979-08-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Count Ottone Ponte di Scarnafigi of Sardinia (died 1788); Count Louis de Seyssel, Turin; Salmon P. Halle, purchased from Count de Seyssel in 1916. Gift of Mrs. Salmon P. Halle in Memory of Salmon Portland Halle, 1958.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 99; Mentioned: p. 99-100
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	Thuillier, Jacques. <em>Les frères Le Nain</em>. Dijon: Éditions Faton, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 206, 170, no. 68
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.174/1958.174_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.174/1958.174_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.174/1958.174_full.tif