#Laurent de La Hyre

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Paul Shipwrecked on Malta, Laurent de La Hyre, 1630

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Dialect

Artist: Laurent de la Hyre (French, 1606-1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

This eloquent and noble Allegories of Rhetoric was originally made for a suite of paintings executed by La Hyre in 1649 and 1650. Depicting the Seven Liberal Arts that are the foundation of classical education as codified in Antiquity – Arithmetic, Astronomy, Geometry, Grammar and Music, as well as Dialectic and Rhetoric – the set of paintings were likely installed around the walls of a single, grand room in the house of Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (1613-1668), a member of the Council of State, who resided on rue d’Angoûlmois in the Marais quarter of Paris. Although today scattered in collections throughout the world, all of the paintings in La Hyre’s original series have survived and can be identified, as well as several replicas most likely from the artist’s workshop.

[lemuseum]

[atna2-34-75]

Laurent de la Hyre

L'Aveuglement des habitants de Sodome (1639)

Louvre

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (4/10/23) Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606-1656) Allegory of Music (1649) Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 144.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Charles B. Curtis Fund)

The allegorical figure tunes a theorbo. At her shoulder is a songbird, symbol of natural music, whereas by contrast she may be musica artificialis, modern music theory and practice. To the right are various contemporary instruments and scores: a lute, a violin, two recorders, a vocal exercise, and a song in two parts. This canvas, originally flanked by two music-making putti (Musée Magnin, Dijon), belonged to a series of the seven Liberal Arts commissioned by Gédéon Tallemant (1613–1668) for his house in the Marais quarter of Paris.

For more of this artist's work, see this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.445039122268129&type=3

[oldsardens]

Laurent de La Hyre - Rhetoric

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history moodboard – dance fever by florence + the machine

The Queen in “Hamlet” – Edwin Austin Abbey // Dance to the Music of Time – follower of Laurent de la Hyre // Play of the Nereides – Arnold Böcklin // // El Jaleo – John Singer Sargent // Vanity – Frank Cadogan Cowper // A Still Life of Tulips, Roses, Bluebells, a Peony, and Other Flowers in a Glass Roemer on a Wooden Ledge with a Dragonfly – Jacob van Hilsdonck // Ulysses and the Sirens – Herbert James Draper  // Marie Camargo – Nicolas Lancret // Cassandra – Evelyn De Morgan 

[centuriespast]

Laurent de La Hyre Angelica and Medoro 1641 Oil on canvas, 141 x 141 cm Private collection

[psikonauti]

Caravaggio (Italian,1571-1610)

Laurent de La Hyre - Allegory of Music, 1649

oil on canvas

[darkchocolateyoghurt]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Taylor Swift, gold rush / Laurent de la Hyre, The Fall of Icarus

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Rhetoric

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606–1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

[odreros2y4]

Conversión de San Pablo. Laurent de La Hyre. 1637. Notre-Dame. París.

[atna2-34-75]

Laurent de la Hyre, Dying Adonis (1628)

Louvre

[agalmacoppelia]

The Binding, Sacrifice of Isaac

Jacob Jordaens - “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1630)

Pedro Orrente - “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1616)

Laurent de La Hyre - “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1650)

Juan de Valdes Leal - “The Sacrifice of Isaac” (1659)

Story imagery - “Brave Little Tailor” variation. The villain (Cobb) shall threaten to kill the male-lead (Ivan), to force the cooperation of the female-lead (Sarta).

“If only your name were Isaac instead of Ivan, so God might see how well I perform my duties.”

[oldsardens]

Laurent de La Hyre - Panthea, Cyrus, and Araspas

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history album moodboard – dance fever by florence + the machine

The Flamenco Dancer – Leopold Schmutzler // The Queen in “Hamlet” – Edwin Austin Abbey // Vanity – Frank Cadogan Cowper // Play of the Nereides – Arnold Böcklin // A Still Life of Tulips, Roses, Bluebells, a Peony, and Other Flowers in a Glass Roemer on a Wooden Ledge with a Dragonfly – Jacob van Hilsdonck // Yseult – Frank Bernard Dicksee // The Course of Empire: Destruction – Thomas Cole // Vanity – Frank Cadogan Cowper // Dance to the Music of Time – follower of Laurent de la Hyre // Marie Camargo – Nicolas Lancret // Ulysses and the Sirens – Herbert James Draper // Cassandra – Evelyn De Morgan // El Jaleo – John Singer Sargent // The Course of Empire: The Consummation of Empire – Thomas Cole // The Flamenco Dancer – Leopold Schmutzler