All Laurent de la Hyre's oil paintings
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2178 Abraham Sacrificing Isaac Abraham Sacrificing Isaac 1650 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Orleans
51764 Abraham Sacrificing Isaac Abraham Sacrificing Isaac nn09 1650 Oil on canvas 96.4x121cm
82821 Allegory of Arithmetic Allegory of Arithmetic oil on canvas. Dimensions 103.6 x 112 cm. cyf
82822 Allegory of Arithmetic Allegory of Arithmetic oil on canvas. Dimensions 103.6 x 112 cm. cyf
2177 Astronomy Astronomy 1650 Musee Saint-Denis, Reims
40453 Mercury Takes Bacchus to be Brought Up by Nymphs Mercury Takes Bacchus to be Brought Up by Nymphs mk156 1638 Oil on canvas 112.5x135cm
Laurent de la Hyre
1606-1656 French Laurent de la Hyre Galleries He became a pupil of Georges Lallemand and studied the works of Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but never visited Italy. La Hyre is associated with the transitional period before the introduction of the French Baroque by Simon Vouet. His picture of Pope Nicholas V opening the crypt in which he discovers the corpse of St. Francis of Assisi standing (located at the Louvre) was executed in 1630 for the Capuchin friars of the Marais; its gravity and sobriety seems to have been influential for the next generation of French painters, particularly Eustache Le Sueur. The Louvre contains eight other works, and paintings by La Hyre are in the museums of Strasburg, Rouen and Le Mans. Laurent de La Hyre: Perspective (drawing).His drawings, of which the British Museum possesses a fine example, Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, are treated as seriously as his paintings, and sometimes show simplicity and dignity of effect. The example of the Capuchins, for whom he executed several other works in Paris, Rouen and Fecamp, was followed by the goldsmith's company, for whom he produced in 1635 St. Peter healing the Sick (Louvre) and the Conversion of St Paul in 1637. In 1646, with eleven other artists, he founded the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Richelieu called La Hyre to the Palais Royal; Pierre S??guier, Gedeon Tallemant des R??aux and many others entrusted him with important works of decoration; for the Gobelins he designed a series of large compositions. La Hyre painted also a great number of portraits, and in 1654 united in one work for the town-hall of Paris those of the principal dignitaries of the municipality. . Related Artists to : | Camillo Procaccini | ALBEREGNO Jacobello | TIZIANO Vecellio | Sharafuddin Yazdi | Robert W. Weir |