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Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)
Lot 156 THE PROPERTY OF AN AUSTRIAN COLLECTOR (lots 140, 142, 156, 160,, 162, 162-165, 173, 201, 204, 213, 261)

Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)

Nymphs and Bacchantes paying homage at the temple of Flora

Closed8 July 2009

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Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1640-1711 Amsterdam)
Nymphs and Bacchantes paying homage at the temple of Flora
signed 'G. de Lairesse f' (lower right)
oil on canvas
56¼ x 75½ in. (142.9 x 191.7 cm.)

Jean-Baptiste Lebrun, by 1809.
Anonymous sale; Rheims, 4 March 1990, lot 209 (sold to the present owner).

Specialist note

Considered by Roy (oc. cit.) to be an important work within Lairesse's oeuvre, he dates it to circa 1667-70 by comparison with works such as the Golden Age (Potsdam, Sanssouci) and the Apollo and the Muses (St. Petersburg, Hermitage). A drawing after the picture (pen and wash; 29.1 x 38 cm.) is in the Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (inv. 13118).