Study for Mercury and Herse
Laurent de La Hyre
c. 1649
Medium
Black chalk, with brush and brown and gray wash, on paper
Dimensions
27.6 × 23.5 cm (10 7/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
81308
Rights
Public Domain
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...