Cupid Looking in a Mirror

Laurent de La Hyre

Artist, French, 1606 - 1656

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving and etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1996.113.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil, no. 17

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sale, London, Christie's, 27 June 1996, lot 55); purchased (via Artemis) by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: L.De la Hyre / In. et Scul. Cum. pv. Regis.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Paris-1606.

Wikidata ID

Q75398958

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