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Design for a Frontispiece of a Title Page

Gerard de Lairesse

n.d.

Medium

Brush and gray wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink

Tags

Sculpture Men Women

Dimensions

14 9/10 x 9 1/2 in. (37.8 x 24.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

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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