Allegory of Music
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
41 5/8 x 56 3/4 in. (105.7 x 144.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Charles B. Curtis Fund, 1950
Accession Number
50.189
Tags
LutesViolinsAllegoryBirdsWomenMusic
About the Artist
Laurent de La Hyre · 1606–1656
Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1656) was a French painter whose elegant, classical compositions placed him among the finest artists of the first generation of French Baroque painters working in Paris. Born into an artistic family — his father Étienne de La Hyre was also a painter — Laurent received his early training largely through independent study rather than formal apprenticeship under a single domi...