St. Roch Interceding before the Holy Trinity for Plague Victims
Laurent de La Hyre
17th century
Medium
Black chalk, brush and gray wash
Dimensions
8 7/8 x 5 13/16 in. (22.5 x 14.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1983
Accession Number
1983.360
Tags
Saints
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...