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Also Known As Laurent de La Hire
Born February 27, 1606 • Paris • France
Died December 28, 1656 (aged 50) • Paris • France
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture

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Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen, oil on canvas by Simon Vouet, c. 1627; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 101.6 × 78.74 cm.
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Charles-Antoine Coypel: Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida
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Eustache Le Sueur
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Noël Coypel
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Recreation, engraving by Abraham Bosse, 1635.
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Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
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Zurbarán, Francisco de
Francisco de Zurbarán
Spanish painter
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Grape and Melon Eaters
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Champaigne, Philippe de: The Dream of Saint Joseph
Philippe de Champaigne
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Snyders, Frans: Interior of an Office
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Ruisdael, Jacob van: Waterfall with a Low Wooded Hill
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