Antoine Le Nain

Antoine Le Nain created a group portrait of the aldermen of Paris in 1632.¹

Mathieu became the official painter (Peintre Ordinaire) of Paris in 1633.¹

Louis Le Nain also died in 1648.¹

The Le Nain brothers were received into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture in 1648, the year of its founding.¹

Antoine Le Nain died in 1648.¹

In 1662 Mathieu received the unusual honour for a painter of the Order of Saint Michael, but was expelled a year later.¹

Mathieu Le Nain lived until 1677.¹