Karen Wilkin reviews The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France on view at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth through September 11, 2016.

Wilkin writes: "The acclaimed scenes of peasants, seen indoors or against the rolling fields of Picardy, are the heart of the show. Especially in the outdoor scenes, the pale, eerie light, the subdued palette, and the odd dislocations of scale among the figures, lost in their individual worlds, make these haunting paintings strangely modern. It’s as if they point to Cubism. No wonder Braque liked them."