Allegory of Fecundity (?)
mid-17th–early 18th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over a sketch in red chalk. Double framing line in pen and brown ink (possibly by the artist).
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (26 x 31.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009
Accession Number
2009.199
Tags
About the Artist
Gerard de Lairesse|Anonymous, Italian, 17th century|Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century · 1641–1711
Gerard de Lairesse (1641–1711) was a leading figure of the Dutch Golden Age, renowned as both a painter and art theorist whose classical ideals bridged the dramatic realism of Rembrandt with the refined elegance of French academism. Born on September 11, 1641, in Liège, he was the second son of the painter Renier de Lairesse (1597–1667). De Lairesse received his initial training under his father b...