Gerard de Lairesse
Bacchus and Ariadne
68.5 x 51 cmOil on canvas
Faintly signed lower left: G. Lairesse
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Gift of Mrs. Edgar P. Richardson
Literature
Peter C. Sutton, Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1990, nr. 57
Provenance
Possibly Dr. Johan Pieter Wierman
possibly sale, Wierman, Amsterdam, 18 August 1762, nr. 5
Countess van Lynden, who lent it to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1901-3
with A. Nijstad & Zn, Lochem, Netherlands, by 1946, sold to Richardson 23 July 1955
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar P. Richardson, Philadelphia
Constance (Mrs. Edgar P.) Richardson
gift to PMA, 1986
Other works by Gerard de Lairesse
An allegorical portrait of a family
Antiochus and Stratonice
1671 - 75
1671 - 75
Apollo and Aurora
1671
1671
Diana and Endymion
c. 1680
c. 1680
Venus giving weapons to Aeneas
1668
1668