Medium
Engraving; second state of two (Nagler)
Dimensions
sheet: 14 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (37.8 x 24.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.983
Tags
Saint FrancisCross
About the Artist
Laurent de La Hyre|Gilles Rousselet|Pierre Mariette le fils · 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...