There were three brothers of this name, all born in Laon. Antoine was in Paris from 1629 and his two brothers Louis and Mathieu from 1630. They had established a common workshop in Paris. They remained unmarried and are traditionally said to have worked in harmony, often collaborating on the same picture. The "Le Nain problem" of determining which of them painted what is complicated because no signed work bears a first initial and no work completed after 1648 is dated. Evaluation of the three personalities early in the 20th century was therefore based on the dubious establishment of three stylistic groups. Art scholars today no longer try to attribute individual works, and the three brothers are treated as a single artist.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	Four Figures at Table 1630s Oil on canvas, 46 x 55 cm National Gallery, London	927*750 True Color 99 Kb
	Bacchus and Ariadne c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 102 x 152 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans	1195*800 True Color 92 Kb
	Birth of the Virgin c. 1645 Oil on canvas, 220 x 145 cm Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris	700*1050 True Color 85 Kb
	Blacksmith at His Forge c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 69 x 57 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	900*1066 True Color 121 Kb
	Peasants at their Cottage Door 1640s Oil on canvas, 55 x 68 cm Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco	852*680 True Color 143 Kb
	The Happy Family 1642 Oil on canvas, 61 x 78 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	1306*1001 True Color 157 Kb
	Landscape with Peasants c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 47 x 57 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington	1300*1032 True Color 181 Kb
	Landscape with Peasants and a Chapel - Oil on canvas, 41 x 55 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford	1068*804 True Color 154 Kb
	Milkmaid's Family c. 1641 Oil on canvas, 51 x 59 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg	1244*1074 True Color 184 Kb
	Peasant Family c. 1640 Oil on canvas, 113,3 x 159,5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	1073*750 True Color 126 Kb
	Peasant Interior 1642 Oil on canvas, 56 x 65 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington	1301*1100 True Color 203 Kb
	The Peasant Meal 1642 Oil on canvas, 97 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	972*918 True Color 145 Kb
	Smokers in an Interior 1643 Oil on canvas, 117 x 137 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	1096*935 True Color 111 Kb
	Smokers in an Interior (detail) 1643 Oil on canvas Musée du Louvre, Paris	785*985 True Color 114 Kb
	The Supper at Emmaus 1645 Oil on canvas, 75 x 92 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	900*751 True Color 95 Kb
	The Cart or Return from Haymaking 1641 Oil on canvas, 56 x 72 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	888*716 True Color 197 Kb
	Venus at the Forge of Vulcan 1641 Oil on canvas, 150 x 116,8 cm Musée Saint-Denis, Reims	854*1100 True Color 129 Kb
	Allegory of Victory c. 1635 Oil on canvas, 151 x 115 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	650*850 True Color 80 Kb