Style Gerard de Lairesse

gerard de lairesse: allegory of 5 senses, 1668



venus presenting weapons aeneas, museum mayer van den bergh, antwerp

at first, de lairesse highly influenced rembrandt, later focused on more french-oriented style similar nicolas poussin. french nicknamed him dutch poussin , although influenced pierre mignard , charles alphonse du fresnoy.

in amsterdam during second half of 17th century, pious austerity of protestant dutch in rembrandt s age had given way unbridled opulence, decadence, , de lairesse s classical french, or baroque, style fitted age perfectly. made him 1 of, if not popular painter in amsterdam @ time. de lairesse therefore hired adorn interiors of government buildings , homes (canal houses) of wealthy amsterdam businessmen lavish grisailles, trompe l oeil ceilings , wall paintings. of these paintings still exist in original buildings painted.