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Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)
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Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)

Nymphs and Bacchantes paying homage at the temple of Flora

Details
Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)
Nymphs and Bacchantes paying homage at the temple of Flora
signed 'G. de Lairesse f' (lower right)
oil on canvas
56¼ x 75½ in. (142.9 x 191.7 cm.)
Provenance
Jean-Baptiste Lebrun, by 1809.
Anonymous sale; Rheims, 4 March 1990, lot 209 (sold to the present owner).
Literature
J.-B. Lebrun, Recueil de gravures au trait, à l'eau forte et ombrée d'après un choix de tableaux de toutes les écoles, Paris, 1809, p. 86, fig. 162.
A. Roy, Gérard de Lairesse, Paris, 1992, p. 217, no. P.30 (illustrated).
Engraved
Line engraving, in reverse, for Lebrun (oc. cit.).
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Lot Essay

Considered by Roy (oc. cit.) to be an important work within Lairesse's oeuvre, he dates it to circa 1667-70 by comparison with works such as the Golden Age (Potsdam, Sanssouci) and the Apollo and the Muses (St. Petersburg, Hermitage). A drawing after the picture (pen and wash; 29.1 x 38 cm.) is in the Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (inv. 13118).

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