When did Gerard de Lairesse live?

Gerard de Lairesse lived from 1640 to 1711.

What movement was Gerard de Lairesse part of?

Gerard de Lairesse was part of the Dutch Golden Age movement.

Where can I see paintings by Gerard de Lairesse?

Paintings by Gerard de Lairesse are held by Rijksmuseum, Statens Museum for Kunst and Cleveland Museum of Art.

Gerard de Lairesse · Paintings, Biography & Famous Works

Dutch, 1640–1711

Gerard de Lairesse was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 58 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Gerard de Lairesse was born in Liège.

Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (French pronunciation:; 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 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. His treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701), based on geometry and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-century painters.