Laurent de La Hyre

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (April 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,164 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Laurent de La Hyre]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Laurent de La Hyre}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Laurent de La Hyre (French pronunciation: [loʁɑ̃ də la iʁ]; 27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical style of Parisian Atticism.

Life

La Hyre was greatly influenced by the work of Italian artists who came to Paris. He became a pupil of Georges Lallemand and studied the works of Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but never visited Italy. La Hyre's captivating use of color and delicately posed figures are a trademark of his early, painteresque style. He was an innovative artist who used his superior skills as a storyteller to portray rarely depicted subjects. La Hyre is associated with the transitional period before the introduction of the French Baroque by Simon Vouet.^[1]

His picture of

His drawings, of which the

In 1648, La Hyre was one of the founders of the

Richelieu called La Hyre to the Palais Royal; Pierre Séguier, Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux 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.^[1] His students included François Chauveau.

Works by Laurent de La Hyre

• Mythological and other themes
• 
  Theseus and Aethra
• 
  The Rape of Europa
• 
  Regency of Anne of Austria
• 
  Cyrus Announcing to Araspas that Panthea Has Obtained His Pardon
• 
  Cornelia

  Refuses The Crown of The Ptolomai (1646)
• 
  Hercules and Omphale (1626)

• Seven Liberal Arts
• 
  Allegory of Astronomy (1649)
• 
  Allegory of Geometry (1649)
• 
  Allegory of Music (1649)
• 
  Allegory of Arithmetic (1650)
• 
  Allegory of Dialectic (1650)
• 
  Allegory of Grammar (1650)
• 
  Allegory of Rhetoric (1650)

• Biblical themes
• 
  Christ in Emmaus
• 
  Abraham Sacrificing Isaac
• 
  Laban Searching Jacob's Baggage for the Stolen Idols
• 
  Jesus Appearing to the Three Marys

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lahire, Laurent de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 80.

Birmingham Museum of Art (2010). Birmingham Museum of Art Guide to the Catalog. London: Giles. 9781904832775.

External links

• Media related to Laurent de La Hyre at Wikimedia Commons
• Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Laurent de La Hyre (see index)
• A Caravaggio Rediscovered, The Lute Player, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on La Hyre (see cat. no. 19)