The Holy Family with Putti
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 28.8 × 40 cm (11 3/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30 × 40.5 cm (11 13/16 × 16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
188846
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...