Holy Family Resting on the Flight into Egypt
Laurent de La Hyre
mid-17th century
Medium
gray wash over black chalk on laid paper, laid down on an old album sheet
Dimensions
sheet: 28.5 × 18 cm (11 1/4 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Donald Stone
Accession Number
2022.40.24
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...