Cephalus Receiving the Spear and Hound from Procris
Laurent de La Hyre
ca. 1644
Medium
Black chalk, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28.1 x 21.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1972
Accession Number
1972.224.4
Tags
Female NudesDogsMen
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...