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Gerard de Lairesse: Apollo and Aurora  wikidata:Q19912285 reasonator:Q19912285
Artist
Gerard de Lairesse  (–1711)  wikidata:Q533958 s:pt:Autor:Gérard de Lairesse
 
Gerard de Lairesse
Alternative names
Gerard Lairesse
Description Southern Netherlandish-Dutch painter, drawer, printmaker and ornamental painter
Date of birth/death 11 September 1640 (baptised) 21 July 1711 (buried)
Location of birth/death Liège Amsterdam
Work location
Liège (1655-1664), Cologne (1660), Utrecht (1664-1665), Amsterdam (1665-1711), The Hague (1684)
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creator QS:P170,Q533958
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Title
Apollo and Aurora Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Apollo and Aurora Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Apollo and Aurora Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lnl,"Apollo Helios en Aurora Eos"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Caption from the museum's website

Largely forgotten today, De Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner based on the study of classical antiquity. This work, likely destined to hang over the mantelpiece in a grand Amsterdam home, depicts the sun god consorting with the goddess of the dawn, a popular subject in French and Italian painting at the time. The attractively individualized young faces have led to speculation that they may be disguised portraits of a newly married couple.

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Date 1671 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 205 cm (80.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 193 cm (75.9 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+205U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+193U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (accession number 43.118)
Object history

Provenance:

  • ?Nicolas Pancras, Amsterdam (1671–d. 1678);
  • ?his widow, Petronella de Waert, Amsterdam (1678–d. 1709);
  • ?their son, Gerbrand Nicolasz. Pancras, Amsterdam (1709–d. 1716;
  • his estate sale, Amsterdam, April 7, 1716, no. 2, as "Apollo en Aurora," for fl. 60);
  • Mrs. S. M. Pike, New York, and/or her daughter, Mrs. James D. Goin, New York (before 1903);
  • by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Manuel E. (Ellen Goin) Rionda, Alpine, N.J. (until 1943)
Exhibition history
  • Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum. "The Glory of the Golden Age," April 15–September 17, 2000, no. 200.
  • Dordrechts Museum. "Greek Gods and Heroes in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt," February 3–May 8, 2001, no. 44 (as "Helios and Eos").
  • New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
  • New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met," October 16, 2018–October 4, 2020, no catalogue.
Credit line Gift of Manuel E. and Ellen G. Rionda, 1943
Inscriptions Signed and dated (lower left): G. Lairesse f. . . 1671
References
Source/Photographer Art Renewal Center
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