Circle of Gérard de Lairesse

This diminutive panel was likely executed by an artist working in the circle of Gérard de Lairesse, a French-born painter, draughtsman, and engraver. Working for the cultured Amsterdam elite, Lairesse was a leading proponent of classicism in seventeenth-century Holland, where he contributed to the gallicization of Dutch painting, spurring the production of mythological scenes for domestic interiors, like the present work.