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Laurent de La Hyre (; 27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French
La Hyre was greatly influenced by the work of Italian artists who came to Paris. He became a pupil of 
His drawings, of which the ''Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture depuis 1648 jusqu'en 1664''
Ed.
Richelieu called La Hyre to the Palais Royal;
File:Laurent de La Hyre - Theseus and Aethra - WGA12325.jpg, ''Theseus and Aethra''
Laurent de La Hyre - The Rape of Europa - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Rape of Europa''
File:La Hyre - Regency of Anne of Austria.jpg, ''Regency of Anne of Austria''
File:Laurent de La Hyre - Cyrus Announcing to Araspas that Panthea Has Obtained His Pardon - WGA12316.jpg, ''Cyrus Announcing to Araspas that Panthea Has Obtained His Pardon''
File:Laurent de la La Hyre 001.jpg, '' Cornelia Refuses The Crown of The Ptolomai'' (1646)
File:La Hyre Hercule et Omphale.jpg, ''Hercules and Omphale'' (1626)
File:Allegory of Astronomy - Laurent de La Hyre.jpg, ''Allegory of Astronomy'' (1649)
File:La-hyre-geometry.jpg, ''Allegory of Geometry'' (1649)
File:Laurent de La Hyre Allegory of Music 1649.png, ''Allegory of Music'' (1649)
File:Laurent de La Hyre - Allegory of Arithmetic - Walters 371917.jpg, ''Allegory of Arithmetic'' (1650)
File:Allegory of Dialectic.jpg, Allegory of Dialectic (1650)
File:Laurent de La Hyre - Allegory of Grammar - Walters 37862.jpg, ''Allegory of Grammar'' (1650)
File:Allegory of Rhetoric.jpg, ''Allegory of Rhetoric'' (1650)
File:Apparition du Christ aux pélerins d’Emmaüs by Laurent de La Hyre.jpg, ''Christ in Emmaus''
File:Abraham.jpg, ''Abraham Sacrificing Isaac''
File:Laurent de La Hyre - Laban Searching Jacob's Baggage for the Stolen Idols - WGA12321.jpg , ''Laban Searching Jacob's Baggage for the Stolen Idols ''
File:Laurent de La Hyre - Jesus Appearing to the Three Marys - WGA12319.jpg , ''Jesus Appearing to the Three Marys''
''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) {{DEFAULTSORT:La Hyre, Laurent de 1606 births 1656 deaths French Baroque painters Painters from Paris French tapestry artists
Baroque
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painter
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, born in Paris
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. 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 Georges Lallemand (before 1575–1636) was a French artist. His name is sometimes given as "Lallemant".
Life
Lallemand was born in Nancy in around 1575. Nothing is known of his artistic education, but he is often assumed to have been a pupil of ...
and studied the works of Primaticcio
Francesco Primaticcio (April 30, 1504 – 1570) was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.
Biography
Born in Bologna, he trained under Giulio Romano in Mantua and became a pupil of ...
at Fontainebleau
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, but never visited Italy
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. 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
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by Simon Vouet
Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and m ...
.''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 1911
His picture of Pope Nicholas V
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opening the crypt
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Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a chur ...
in which he discovers the corpse of St. Francis of Assisi
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Francesco d'Assisi; – 3 October 1226), was a mystic Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christianit ...
standing (located at the Louvre
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) was executed in 1630 for the Capuchin friars
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of the Marais
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* Le Marais, historic district of Paris
* Théâtre du Marais, the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France
* Marais (c ...
; its gravity and sobriety seems to have been influential for the next generation of French painters, particularly Eustache Le Sueur
Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur (19 November 161730 April 1655) was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclas ...
. The Louvre contains eight other works, and paintings by La Hyre are in the museums of Strasburg, Rouen
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and Le Mans
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.
His drawings, of which the British Museum
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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
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, Rouen and Fécamp, 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
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'' in 1637.
In 1648, La Hyre was one of the founders of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its running.Ed.
Anatole de Montaiglon
Anatole de Courde de Montaiglon (28 November 1824 – 1 September 1895) was a 19th-century French librarian and art historian.
Biography
In 1850, De Montaignon graduated as an archivist and palaeographer from the École des chartes, with a the ...
, Paris 1853, vol. I, p. 36.Pierre Séguier
Pierre Séguier (; 28 May 1588 – 28 January 1672) was a French statesman, chancellor of France from 1635.
Biography Early years
Séguier was born in Paris to a prominent legal family originating in Quercy. His grandfather, Pierre Séguier (15 ...
, Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
Gédéon Tallemant, Sieur des Réaux (7 November 1619 – 6 November 1692) was a French writer known for his ''Historiettes'', a collection of short biographies.
Biography
Born at La Rochelle, he belonged to a wealthy middle-class Huguenot fa ...
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. His students included François Chauveau
François Chauveau (10 May 1613 – 3 February 1676) was a French artist, known as a burin engraver, draftsmen and painter.
Life
François Chauveau was born 10 May 1613 in Paris, as the second son of the impoverished noble, Lubin Chauveau a ...
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Works by Laurent de La Hyre
References
Sources
*External links
*''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) {{DEFAULTSORT:La Hyre, Laurent de 1606 births 1656 deaths French Baroque painters Painters from Paris French tapestry artists