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LAURENT DE LA HYRE (PARIS 1605-1656)

Lot 47
25.01.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 47 | LAURENT DE LA HYRE (PARIS 1605-1656)
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$ 400 000 – 600 000
LAURENT DE LA HYRE (PARIS 1605-1656)

Rhetoric and Dialectic

both signed and dated 'L. DE LA HIRE. in. &. F. 1650' (the first: lower right; the second: on the stone plinth at right)

oil on canvas

40 1/4 x 46 7/8 in. (102.3 x 119.2 cm.)

(2)the first: inscribed 'ORNATVS PERSVASIO' (on the hem of the cloak)





Provenance

Painted in 1650 for Gédéon Tallemant (1613-68), 'Maître des Requêtes', Hôtel Tallemant, Paris, and probably still 'in situ' until dispersed by sale in 1760.

M. Sinson, Paris; (†) his sale, Regnault-Delalande, Paris, 20-24 December 1814, lot 278.

Private collection, France, by 1947.

[The Buergenstock Collection - The Property of Fritz Frey]; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1996, lot 81, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

C. Sterling, A catalogue of French Painting 15th-18th Centuries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cambridge, 1955, pp. 86-89.

F. Frey, Der Bu¨rgenstock: Kunst, Geschichte, Tradition, Hoteldorf, Zu¨rich and Stuttgart, 1967, pp. 136-137, as Mercury and Diana.

P.-M. Auzas, 'A propos de Laurent de La Hire', Revue du Louvre, 1968, p. 12.

H. Wine, et al., 'Laurent de la Hyre's Allegorical Figure of Grammar', The National Gallery Technical Bulletin, XIV, 1993, pp. 23, 26, table 1.

C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London and New Haven, 1995, p. 365, under NG 6329; 2nd ed., 2001, p. 365, as still in the Bürgenstock collection.

V. Bar and D. Brême, Dictionnaire iconologique: Les allégories et les symboles de Cesare Ripa et Jean Baudoin, Dijon, 1999, p. 138, 197 and 285, illustrated.



Exhibited

Grenoble, Musées de Grenoble; Rennes, Musée Rennes; Bordeaux, Musée de Bordeaux, Laurent de La Hyre, 1606-1656: L'Homme et l'Oeuvre, 14 January-10 April 1989; 9 May-31 August 1989, 6 October 1989-6January 1990, nos. 262 and 263.



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This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Laurent de La Hyre (1606 - 1656)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Allegory
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe, Paris
Auction house category:Paintings
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