Le-Nene brothers (Le-Nain), Louis Antoine (died 1648) and Mathieu (died 1677), the French painters who worked in half of the XVII century. Biographical information on them is very scarce, and art critics have not figured out the characteristics that distinguish the work of one of them from the works of another.
They painted mainly scenes of simple life, apparently, often helping each other. His elder brother, Louis, called Rome, and the average, Antoine, known as Chevalier died in Paris in 1648, and the youngest, Mathieu, in 1677
Outside France, the paintings of these artists are very rare. In the Louvre muses. In Paris, they have ten ("Nursery", "Blacksmith", "Return of the harvest," "Playing cards", "Burgher dinner", "Portrait of Henry II, Montmorency, etc.) in Imp. Hermitage in St. Petersburg. – Three ("Prayer before dinner," "Family thrush" and "Visit Grandma").