Circumcision

Circumcision by Laurent de La Hyre

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in. (32 x 22 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Accession Number

53.600.290

Tags

CircumcisionHorsesAdoration of the MagiSaints

About the Artist

Laurent de La Hyre · 16061656

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...

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