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The Pentecost

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The Pentecost

Gerard de Lairesse

n.d.

Medium

Pen and grayish brown ink, tip of the brush and gray ink, gray wash, red chalk and white heightening

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Dimensions

sheet: 7 11/16 x 5 1/16 in. (19.6 x 12.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Sotheby's Gift, 2002

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Gerard de Lairesse

1640–1711 • Dutch Republic

In his day, a well-known painter, etcher, and art theorist. A contributor to the ‘gallicizing’ of Dutch art in the second half of the 17th century, he was a talented painter who served a wealthy, cultivated bourgeoisie for whom he painted complex allegories. He was known as an accompished painter and also as a draughtsman and engraver, and an influential theorist among the late 17th-century promoters of classicism. He suffered from congenital syphilis, which caused him to go blind about 1690; he subsequently focused his energies on art theory. Comment on works: History.

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