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Allegory of Fecundity (?)

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Allegory of Fecundity (?)

Gerard de Lairesse | Anonymous, Italian, 17th century | Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

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).

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Dimensions

sheet: 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (26 x 31.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Gerard de Lairesse

1640–1711 • Dutch Republic

In his day, a well-known painter, etcher, and art theorist. A contributor to the ‘gallicizing’ of Dutch art in the second half of the 17th century, he was a talented painter who served a wealthy, cultivated bourgeoisie for whom he painted complex allegories. He was known as an accompished painter and also as a draughtsman and engraver, and an influential theorist among the late 17th-century promoters of classicism. He suffered from congenital syphilis, which caused him to go blind about 1690; he subsequently focused his energies on art theory. Comment on works: History.

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