St. Genevieve
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 14 15/16 x 9 3/8 in. (38 x 23.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.272
Tags
WomenSaints
About the Artist
Laurent de La Hyre|François de La Rochefoucauld|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...