Diana and her Nymphs
before 1662
Medium
Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (22-23 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)
Dimensions
136 1/2 x 216 1/2 in. (346.7 x 549.9 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Tapestries
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.44.3
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About the Artist
Laurent de La Hyre|Hippolyte de Comans · 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...