Gerard de Lairesse

Rembrandt's portrait of Gerard de Lairesse at age 25, showing his saddle nose caused by congenital syphilis. Oil on canvas, c. 1665–67. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ də lɛʁɛs]; 11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa[1][2] and French classicist painters such as Charles le Brun, Simon Vouet and authors such as Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine. His importance grew in the period following the death of Rembrandt.[3] His treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701),[4][5][6] based on geometry and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-century painters.[7]

  1. ^ Gérard de Lairesse, Groot schilderboek, 1707
  2. ^ Lyckle de Vries "De Lairesse on the theory and practice"
  3. ^ Johnson, HA (24 May 2012). "Horton A Johnson, "Gerard de Lairesse: genius among the treponemes". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 97 (6): 301–303. doi:10.1177/014107680409700616. PMC 1079501. PMID 15173339.
  4. ^ Lairesse, Gérard de, Grondlegginge ter teekenkonst 1701, full digital copy
  5. ^ Lairesse, Gérard de, Grondlegginge ter teekenkonst 1701, full digital copy, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
  6. ^ Grondlegginge der teekenkonst (1701) and Groot Schilderboek (1707)
  7. ^ "Gerard de Lairesse" (in Dutch). Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012.