Laurent de la Hyre
French, 1606-1656
The Holy Family with Putti
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Laurent de la Hyre
French, 1606-16561640
The Holy Family with Putti
Laurent de la Hyre French, 1606-1656 →etchingpaper
Date
1640
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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment
Laurent de la Hyre studied at Fontainebleau between 1622 and 1625, where he probably learned printmaking. This etching, made in 1640 after a drawing now in Darmstadt, has been extolled as one of "masterpieces of French printmaking" by the art historians Pierre Rosenberg and Jacques Thuillier. A cluster of putti gather around the Virgin and infant Christ, who selects an apple from an overturned basket of fruit, reflecting his mission to redeem original sin.
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