Cupid Looking in a Mirror
Laurent de La Hyre
1601 to 1650
Medium
engraving and etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.6 x 11.3 cm (3 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.) sheet: 9.1 x 11.7 cm (3 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1996.113.13
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...