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LAURENT DE LAHIRE (1606-1656)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAURENT DE See also:LAHIRE (1606-1656)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 27th of See also:February 1606 . He became a See also:pupil of Lallemand, studied the See also:works of Primaticcio at See also:Fontainebleau, but never visited See also:Italy, and belongs wholly to that transition See also:period which preceded the school of See also:Simon See also:Vouet . His picture of See also:Nicolas V. opening the See also:crypt in which he discovers the See also:corpse of St See also:Francis of See also:Assisi See also:standing (Louvre) was executed in 163o for the See also:Capuchins of the Marais; it shows a gravity and sobriety of See also:character which marked See also:Lahire's best See also:work, and seems not to have been without See also:influence on Le Sueur . The Louvre contains eight other works, and paintings by Lahire are in the museums of Strasburg, See also:Rouen and Le Mans . His drawings, of which the See also:British Museum possesses a See also:fine example, " Presentation of the Virgin in the See also:Temple," are treated as seriously as his paintings, and sometimes show simplicity and dignity of effect . The example of the Capuchins, for whom he executed several other works in Paris, Rouen and See also:Fecamp, was followed by the goldsmiths' See also:company, for whom he produced in 1635 " St See also:Peter healing the Sick " (Louvre) and the " See also:Conversion of St See also:Paul " in 1637 . In 1646, with eleven other artists, he founded the French Royal See also:Academy of See also:Painting and See also:Sculpture . See also:Richelieu called Lahire to the Palais Royal; See also:Chancellor Seguier, See also:Tallemant de Reaux and many others entrusted him with important works of decoration; for the Gobelins he designed a See also:series of large compositions . Lahire painted also a See also:great number of portraits, and in 16J4 See also:united in one work for the See also:town-See also:hall of Paris those of the See also:principal dignitaries of the See also:municipality . He died on the 28th of See also:December 1656 .

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