Oil on canvas, 161,8 x 165,8 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp The brilliant colours and dramatic lighting lend this fine baroque painting a peerless theatricality and pathos. , Artist: LAIRESSE, Gerard de , Venus Presenting Weapons to Aeneas , 1651-1700 , Dutch , painting , mythological
Painting ID:: 64255
Gerard de Lairesse 2nd half of 17th century
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 161.8 cm (63.7 in). Width: 165.8 cm (65.3 in).
cyf Venus Presenting Weapons to Aeneas Gerard or Gerard de Lairesse (11 September 1640 or 1641 - June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist.
Lairesse was born in Liege. His broad range of talent included music, poetry, and the theatre. He was perhaps the most celebrated Dutch painter in the period following the death of Rembrandt. His treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge der teekenkonst (1701) and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-Century painters like Jacob de Wit. Students of De Lairesse included the painter Jan van Mieris. He died in Amsterdam.
