拍品专文
This is a copy after a painting in the National Gallery, London (inv. no. NG3879), given to the three Le Nain brothers - Antoine, Louis and Mathieu. The London painting is datable to circa 1643, when the brothers were working in Paris. Although the work was traditionally said to represent the Three Ages of Man, due to the differing ages of the grandmother, the young woman and the children, it is more likely to represent a scene of everyday life in rural France. The existence of a large number of copies of pictures like this suggests that there was a substantial market for them in Paris at a moment when similar Dutch and Flemish genre scenes were also extremely popular.