Gérard de Lairesse

(1641–1711)

The artist’s works:

The Institution of the Eucharist
1664–1665
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas
1668
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

Aeneas and the Sibyl
c.1670
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus
c.1670
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Apollo and Aurora
1671
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cleopatra’s Banquet
c.1675–1680
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hagar in the Desert
1675–1680
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Abraham receiving the angels of the Lord
c.1680–1685
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Achilles Discovered
1680
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Bacchus and Ariadne
c.1680
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus
c.1680
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Odysseus and Calypso
c.1680
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Selene and Endymion
c.1680
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hercules between Vice and Virtue
c.1685
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Helen arriving in Troy
c.1685–1690
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Maternal Love
c.1685
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

The Allegory of Constancy
c.1685
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The Infant Moses
1685
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford

Anatomia Humani Corporis (1690)

Anatomia Humani Corporis
1690
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda

Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths

Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths
17th century
Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Gérard de Lairesse in Art:

Rembrandt (1606-1669)
Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse
1665–1667
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Born September 11 1641 Liège (Belgium)
Died July 21 1711 Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Occupation Art Historian Etcher
Occupation Painter Writer