print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1982,U.1769
- Title
- Object: The piper
- Description
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Landscape with on the right a peasant woman carrying a large pot on her head and facing the viewer, nearby two boys, one of whom is seen playing the pipe, and on the right a seated man, with horse and dog at his side; after Louis (?) Le Nain; cutting from unidentified British publication
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1882-1900
- Dimensions
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Height: 133 millimetres (image size)
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Width: 162 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a painting formerly in the collection of Constantine Alexander Ionides, who bought it from Christie's (27 May 1882) and bequeathed it to the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1900. See Pierre Rosenberg, 'Tout l'oeuvre peint des frères Le Nain', Paris, 1993, page 83, No.41.
The painting is still at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where it is catalogued as 'probably by Louis le Nain'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,U.1769
