About the Artwork
The Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1650
Laurent de La Hyre
1606-1656
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 25 1/2 × 31 1/8 inches (64.8 × 79.1 cm) Framed: 31 1/4 × 36 7/8 × 2 1/4 inches (79.4 × 93.7 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper
72.36
Public Domain
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Provenance
possibly, October 28, 1966, auctioned (Christie's, London, England), lot 73. by summer 1968, (Heim Gallery, London, England)
Dr. and Mrs. Coleman Mopper (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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French Paintings and Sculptures of the 17th Century (Part 1). Sales cat. (?), Heim Gallery. London, 1968, p. 11, cat. 19, (repr.).
"La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1249 (February 1973): p. 125, no. 439, (repr.).
France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago. Paris, New York, Chicago, 1982, p. 354 no. 1 (repr.) [as studio--not in exhibition].
Laurent de La Hyre 1606-1656: L'homme et l'oeuvre. Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux Arts. Grenodble, Rennes, and Bordeaux, 1989, pp. 308-310, cited under cat. 275 [as a copy after La Hyre's painting in the Musée de Saint-Denis, Reims, signed & dated 1650--not in exhibition; exhibition organized by P. Rosenberg & J. Thuillier].
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Laurent de La Hyre, The Sacrifice of Isaac, ca. 1650, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Coleman H. Mopper, 72.36.
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